The MSM is struggling now that Trump is out of office. He gave them the ratings they needed to keep the lights on and now that he is gone they are still talking about him, hoping the mention of his name will give them better ratings. But Trump was pretty straightforward about the “Fake News” media. He called them out for their partisan coverage and heavily manipulated news. So many Americans no longer trust CNN and MSNBC. They feel that they are biased and fake. So CNN went on the attack and decided to scrutinize these Americans for calling them fake. On “CNN’s Newsroom” with Victor Blackwell and Oliver Darcy, they talked about a study that shows Americans think far more news is fake than actually is.
BLACKWELL: As many as three in four Americans overestimate their ability to discern whether a headline is real or false on social media or across the internet broadly. That’s according to a new study from the University of Utah and Washington University in St. Louis. Let’s bring in CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy for more. People are really bad, and they just don’t know how bad they are. Is that what we’re learning from this?
DARCY: That is, Victor. It’s actually a really revealing study that’s come out. People are just overconfident in their ability to detect false news. And so researchers asked participants, you know, “How well do you think you can identify false news?” And 90 percent of participants — they said that they are above average in identifying false news. But when researchers compared that number to the actual data from the study after they take the survey about, you know, their knowledge on current events and compare it to the actual data, people place themselves, on average, about 22 percentile higher than they scored on this test.
And so, Victor, this really just highlights this news literacy problem that we have in this country where people are consuming misinformation, conspiracy theories, things that are just not true. And they don’t know it. In fact, they think they are better than other people at identifying that kind of false information. It’s something we really don’t talk enough about. We kind of laugh off, you know, I think, some of these conspiracy theories because they’re so delusional and obviously not true, but for the people who are watching a channel like OAN or even Fox, they very much believe it.
BLACKWELL: They’re designed to appear credible. They’re designed to look like they are real news. In fact, they are not. Oliver Darcy, thanks so much.
Watch The Video Below.
CNN would cover this story. They are trying to win back some of their credibility. They have broadcast too much partisan nonsense. I mean just look at Don Lemon he is constantly pushing the Liberal narrative, and attacks conservatives on the regular. If CNN wants to rebrand themselves they should get rid of Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo just to start.
Leave a Comment