SIO327: Does Paying Fox News Viewers to Watch CNN Pull Them Back Into Reality?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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You've likely seen this study covered across the interwebs. Well, does it hold up to the SIO-Osterman treatment? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 327 I'm Thomas and that's |
| 0:17.4 | Dr. Lindsey Osterman how you doing fantastic how are you I'm good I can't wait to find |
| 0:22.5 | out that everything's fixed it's all solved we're good to go everybody's been talking about |
| 0:28.5 | this study and the coverage they've been sharing it you you pay Fox News viewers to watch CNN of |
| 0:36.2 | all things and it just it's cured they're just it's all better it seems to be the indication |
| 0:42.6 | yes or at least it seems to help so definitely we thought we'd put this study through the |
| 0:48.4 | Lindsey treatment and see if we're saved yeah so this paper it's a manuscript by the way some |
| 0:55.6 | outlets have been reporting this as though it's actually published but it's it's not it's like |
| 1:00.5 | currently undergoing peer review so this is still manuscript well why did they jump jump the |
| 1:04.4 | gun on that just wanted to share the good news yeah I mean it's not it's not totally uncommon for |
| 1:10.0 | authors to share pre pre pre pre prints of their work and so they this was a study that they |
| 1:15.8 | had pre-registered in terms of the analyses and design and things and so they uploaded the |
| 1:20.4 | pre-print to an open science website before it actually gets published but I don't think it's |
| 1:26.0 | entirely uncommon to do that okay anyway so this manuscript is by David Brookman and Joshua |
| 1:30.6 | Calla and it's called the manifold effects of partisan media on viewers beliefs and attitudes |
| 1:36.8 | of field experiment with Fox News viewers so to start us off at the core of Brookman and |
| 1:41.9 | Calla's interest in this study is the large real world impact of partisan media so news outlets can |
| 1:47.6 | be more or less partisan some of them at least try to balance partisanship a little bit whereas |
| 1:52.0 | others like Fox News for instance and MSNBC are clearly presenting news in a way that is intended |
| 1:58.1 | to be flattering to one side and unflattering to another and there's a large body of research |
| 2:03.3 | in the area of media studies that demonstrates that partisan media actually do have strong effects |
| 2:08.7 | on voting behavior and so they have important effects on elections but interestingly and this is |
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