(Source: newsweek)
In media reports on women’s issues—abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood—men are quoted around five times more than women, a new study shows
Sixteen Tons//Tennessee Ernie Ford
His deep voice and the clarinet are perfect.
![theatlantic:
Study: No News is Better Than Fox News
A survey by Farleigh Dickinson University asked 1,185 random people about their news consumption and also random questions about domestic and current events like whether Bashar al-Assad was still in power, the American unemployment rate, and which party holds the most seats in the House of Representatives right now. And this is what they found:
The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.
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Study: No News is Better Than Fox News
A survey by Farleigh Dickinson University asked 1,185 random people about their news consumption and also random questions about domestic and current events like whether Bashar al-Assad was still in power, the American unemployment rate, and which party holds the most seats in the House of Representatives right now. And this is what they found:
The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.
[Image: Reuters]
A Girl and Her Room
The Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker reviews an exhibit of photos by Rania Matar at Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn. See more of Matar’s photos on The Daily Beast.
Teenage girls in their castles, er, bedrooms.
i know they’re all great, but this one kills me.
Bon Iver loves his book of antique maps of Italian cities. When he is half-asleep he traces roads and rotaries, rivers and mountain tunnels on my body: almost without realizing it.
