{"id":3768,"date":"2022-01-20T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:08:53","slug":"neiman-reports-effect-of-local-news-on-covid-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/2022\/01\/neiman-reports-effect-of-local-news-on-covid-attitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Neiman Reports: Effect of Local News on COVID Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neiman published a revealing article detailing a study investigating the relationship between an individuals attitude toward COVID and the local newspaper in their area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So could an institution like your local newspaper \u2014 broadly considered less partisan and more trustworthy than national media, even in its now-shrunken state \u2014 play a role in counter-programming all the national noise? Or would it instead lean into what its readers are already hearing on cable news at night?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a promising notion. The study at hand, conducted by Catie Snow Bailard at George Washington University, rebukes any chance of Local News&#8217; efficacy in moderation. If anything, a robust local newspaper is more likely to polarize its readers. This is indicative of the partisan nature of COVID attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the facts are ever changing, the distribution of local and national opinion quickly skews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the article, written by Joshua Benton, here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2022\/01\/does-having-stronger-local-newspapers-make-people-more-likely-to-follow-covid-safety-guidelines-er-not-so-much\/\">https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2022\/01\/does-having-stronger-local-newspapers-make-people-more-likely-to-follow-covid-safety-guidelines-er-not-so-much\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neiman published a revealing article detailing a study investigating the relationship between an individuals attitude toward COVID and the local newspaper in their area. &#8220;So<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/coronavirus-cdc-credit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Cgx5-YM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}