'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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I largely agree with that Sullivan piece, but two small points on this and the fake Facebook trend bitpic.twitter.com/V9KFA87vGm
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1) we have no basis for knowing how many people who clicked on that Megyn Kelly story took it seriously, and 2) ...
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Things are showing up in the FB 'trending' box with as few as 1,000 'mentions,' whatever that means. Still doesn't say how many believed it.
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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)
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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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