'Every bit as dead as bin Laden, it sometimes seems, is many American citizens’ basic knowledge of news.' http://wpo.st/rn_x1
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For all we know, that stupid story was trending *because it was so stupid and people knew that*. (I doubt it, but WE DO NOT KNOW either way)
So a fake story trending tells us ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about news literacy, just that a few hundred people got curious and clicked.
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Anyway, that story says that HS seniors didn't know bin Laden was dead. Which IS terrible, but that's an indictment on education, not news.
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Anyway people may be uninformed, but they're not stupid. Something dumb trending on FB tells us zip about humanity til we know the algorithm
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I click on those sort of stories
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