Heard about this passing: 15%

Paid attention to this: 4%

Actively searched for news on this: 1%

Didn’t hear about this: 79%

Pollara / December 11, 2023 / n=1503 / Online


This was apparently a test of respondents’ perceived familiarity with news events that never actually happened - IRL details can be found here:

https://www.pollara.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-News-Recap-Dec-2023.pdf

    • Flying Squid
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      66 months ago

      Can’t honor a treaty if you can’t see it, am I right? TREATY CLOAKED!

  • @sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    196 months ago

    It’s shameful that Canadians don’t pay more attention to the news. I’m pretty sure our collective knowledge of current events halved when Facebook stopped carrying news.

    I bet the average Canadian couldn’t even find the Neutral Zone on a map.

  • IninewCrow
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    16 months ago

    Yeah … everyone keeps talking about how the audience reacts to stuff that is given to them

    No one ever asks who is giving / controlling / managing / manipulating the content that is given

    This is like a rat experiment and the scientists keep analyzing the rats reactions and never talk about what they are giving the rats. If the rats are going bat shit crazy because they keep pumping them with sugar, amphetamines and cocaine … is it any wonder that the rats in a cage are going nuts?

    Communications media and social media is controlled by a very small number of private corporations that have little to no control from governments or state organizations … the media companies basically have all the control of the content we consume, see and react to. We are only reacting to what we are seeing … what we are seeing is controlled by a small group of corporations.

    We aren’t the problem

    They are.