>>>>>>>Is this a good thing?
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>>>>>>>In spite of the increasing variety of ways to get the news, the proportion of [Americans] young people getting no news on a typical day has increased substantially over the past decade. About a third of those younger than 25 (34%) say they get no news on a typical day, up from 25% in 1998
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>>>>>>>http://people-press.org/report/444/news-media
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>>>>>>That makes good democrats.
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>>>>>I know that was a throwaway line, but several things in that article, and other stuff I've seen in the past, make me feel reasonably certain that in fact, the folks who pay more attention to the news and have more knowledge of government are more likely to be on the left than the right. In the article, one hint comes from this paragraph:
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>>>>>"Regular readers of magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine stand out for their high level of political knowledge. Nearly half (47%) answered three political knowledge questions correctly - the highest percentage of any news audience."
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>>>>>I'm not sure about Harper's, but I think most would agree that The New Yorker and The Atlantic lean left.
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>>>>>Another hint in the article had to do with education levels. On the whole, the studies I've seen in the past show correlation between more education and leaning to the left politically.
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>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>It depends entirely on bias. If the same question would be presented to readers of a right-oriented political magazine then the results would be totally identical. Ditto for education.
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>>>Except that over the years, I've seen a fair number of studies on this stuff, and pretty regularly, more education correlates with more liberal.
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>>>Tamar
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>>You saw it, that's the reason. Different people look at different studies and poll different audiences.
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>You're missing the point. Just about every time I encounter a study on this subject, it shows correlation between more education and being more liberal. I'm not cherrypicking which studies I read about.
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>Tamar

I'm curious if those studies reflect age as well. Nearly every study I've seen regarding age v. political affiliation shows that as people age they become more conservative. Could be that the nearer to the college experience, the more liberal, but with more real-world experience more conservative ideas take hold.

Per my self-imposed rules, whenever I mention studies I must include links to my favorites.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118972683557627104.html