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Adults who view TV and social media as news sources on COVID are less informed

Image: Getty Images | damircudic April 13, 2021 HERSHEY, Pa. People who trust television and Facebook to provide them with accurate news about the coronavirus pandemic are less knowledgeable about COVID-19, according to a new study, which assessed people’s knowledge of the virus in the earliest stages of the pandemic. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Medical Research & Opinion, surveyed 5,948 adults in Pennsylvania between March 25-31, 2020, and found that those who relied on social media and TV for news were less likely to get the facts right about the coronavirus. In fact, adults that used Facebook as an additional source of news in any way were less likely to answer COVID-19 questions correctly than those who did not.

J Robert Lennon: Subdivision | book review

Subdivision, is a very good book that serves up what feels like a very bad dream. Imbued with dream-logic, the plot unfolds for the unnamed narrator along a path laden with mercurial transformations, uncertainty, and memories that are always just barely out of reach.   Subdivision presents a Kafkaesque tale with attention to minute detail worthy of the works of Nicholson Baker along with the embedded, frustrated teleology reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguru’s  The Unconsoled (1995), where the dream’s protagonist-with-a-goal finds, in the mode of Zeno’s Paradox, an infinite sequence of intervening goals each demanding attention first.  How can one summarize a complicated, extended dream? Recounting plot points would get you nowhere, just as the plot points themselves get the narrator nowhere, as they push against a dense dream headwind. In 

People who trust TV and Facebook for accurate news about COVID-19 are less knowledgeable

People who trust TV and Facebook for accurate news about COVID-19 are less knowledgeable People who trust television and Facebook to provide them with accurate news about the coronavirus pandemic are less knowledgeable about COVID-19, according to a new study, which assessed people s knowledge of the virus in the earliest stages of the pandemic. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Medical Research & Opinion, surveyed 5,948 adults in Pennsylvania between March 25-31, 2020, and found that those who relied on social media and TV for news were less likely to get the facts right about the coronavirus. In fact, adults that used Facebook as an additional source of news in any way were less likely to answer COVID-19 questions correctly than those who did not.

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