On the media, readers and political misconceptions

One perspective.........

From the pen of xkcd

Yet another...........

.......people typically receive corrective information within “objective” news reports pitting two sides of an argument against each other, which is significantly more ambiguous than receiving a correct answer from an omniscient source. In such cases, citizens are likely to resist or reject arguments and evidence contradicting their opinions – a view that is consistent with a wide array of research.... [When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions]

And another again.......

A large majority of Australians believe that most forms of media in Australia are ‘often biased’, a special Roy Morgan telephone survey finds.
The survey also finds a majority of Australians believe newspaper and TV journalists and talk-back radio announcers ‘often get their facts wrong’. Large majorities believe that newspaper and TV journalists ‘invade people’s privacy unnecessarily’. However, they are divided on whether the media are ‘too left-wing leaning’ or ‘too right-wing leaning’. [Roy Morgan Research 2007]