I got 8 out of 9 correct on this Pew Research Center news quiz (via Nashville is Talking). I’m too embarrassed to admit which one I got wrong. But I did score at the 91st percentile. Nice to see that all those hours of watching Anna Nicole Smith and American Idol coverage on the cable news channels have finally paid off.
Speaking of news IQ:
A new survey of 1,502 adults released Sunday by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that despite the mass appeal of the Internet and cable news since a previous poll in 1989, Americans’ knowledge of national affairs has slipped a little.
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Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
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Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly.
Heh.