36% thought it was very easy. Well, 31% thought somewhat easy, when the correct answer really is not very easy at all.

News consumers were asked how easy it is to contract Ebola. Turns out the more news they watch, the wronger they were.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In the upcoming midterms, Super PACs are banking on their political ads influencing far more than mere voters.

The more TV ads aired during state Supreme Court judicial elections, the less likely justices are on, to vote in favor of criminal defendants.

That and advice for adolescent boys from a video game columnist.

A 15-year-old who would write and say,

I think I got my girlfriend pregnant and I don't know what to do.

And then I would take that opportunity to say, okay, so you're 15.

You think your girlfriend's pregnant.

Here's the thing about sex.

There's more coming up. After this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Over the past seven days, the Ebola epidemic has continued to rage in West Africa,

where nearly 10,000 have been infected. So naturally, in the United States, wall-to-wall coverage fixated on the United States.

No wonder, including patient number one, the late Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived from Liberia

infected, two nurses whom he infected, and the New York doctor just returned ill from Guinea,

the total of cases diagnosed in this country

has skyrocketed to four.

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