{"id":2176,"date":"2007-04-17T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/news_iq\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:05:21","slug":"news_iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/news_iq\/","title":{"rendered":"News IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got 8 out of 9 correct on this Pew Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/newsiq\/quiz\/index.php\">news quiz<\/a>  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvilleistalking.com\/2007\/04\/16\/solid-c\/#comments\">Nashville  is Talking<\/a>).  I&#8217;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 <em>American Idol<\/em> coverage on the cable news channels have finally paid off.<br \/>\nSpeaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571876\">news IQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new survey of 1,502 adults released Sunday by Pew Research Center for the People &#038; the Press found that despite the mass appeal of the Internet and cable news since a previous poll in 1989, Americans&#8217; knowledge of national affairs has slipped a little.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nPew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show and Colbert Report.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nVirtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/news_iq\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to News IQ\"><p>I got 8 out of 9 correct on this Pew Research Center news quiz (via Nashville is Talking). I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}