Sunday, December 1, 2013

How to Manufacture News Stories (Rebroadcast)

This episode was released on March 16th, 2013:
In November of 2012, the University of California at Irvine and Slate.com teamed up to conduct and then publish the findings of a very telling social experiment...how do we (human beings) remember news stories?  Over 5,000 people participated in the study and the results provide quite an insight as to how news stories can be manufactured, presented and accepted as true. [Click to Listen]