Why So Many Americans Trust The Weather Channel
FiveThirtyEight Politics
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The Poll Lacks Accuracy of Rating Media Outlets
Nathaniel: What's lacking here is any assurance that those being surveyed are familiar enough to accurately rate the outlets they've been asked to judge. We have no way of knowing how many of the 1500 respondents took wild, uninformed stabs at rating the outlets. Lendly: I definitely think that people can have opinions of media outlets without personally reading or watching it. But there's value in seeing what everyone has to say as opposed to just the especially media literate public.
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