{"id":911,"date":"2014-10-31T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=911"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:37:42","slug":"are-americans-ignorant-or-victims-of-yellow-journalism-armstrong-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Ignorant or victims of Yellow Journalism? | Armstrong Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Americans Ignorant or victims of Yellow Journalism? | Armstrong Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reuters has published the result of what is being touted as the\u00a0Ignorance Index<\/strong><\/a>. The one question as an example:\u00a0\u201cGuess how many U.S. girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Go ahead, guess. If you calculated the number at 3 percent you\u2019re correct; if you guessed 24 percent, you\u2019re American.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I rarely watch TV. If I do, it tends to be national news \u2013 never local news who seem to think a burning house is news or some guy shot his wife in a domestic dispute. I was at dinner and the TV was on. I could not believe the TV advertisements for the elections. They are allNEGATIVE<\/strong>\u00a0calling the other a liar or misrepresenting the facts on everything. One said the candidate cut the number of police, made the streets more dangerous and then shows a picture of ISIS and then said she raise taxes. Then the very next advertisement flips and calls the other a liar for something or another. There was\u00a0ZERO<\/strong>\u00a0advertisement about anything other than vote for me because I lie less that the other liar.<\/p>\n

It seems that the Ignorant Index may be more tied to the bias and lack of integrity of the media. They focus on sensationalism to gain readership and in the process focus of one thing and create false images in the minds of the average person.<\/p>\n

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Are Americans Ignorant or victims of Yellow Journalism? | Armstrong Economics. Reuters has published the result of what is being touted as the\u00a0Ignorance Index. The one question as an example:\u00a0\u201cGuess how many U.S. girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Go ahead, guess. If you calculated the number at 3 percent you\u2019re correct; if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[417,655,718,900],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ignorance","tag-propaganda","tag-sensationalism","tag-yellow-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}