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It’s On at Slate

July 21, 2009

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Michael Kinsley announces a “highly unscientific experiment ” at Slate to determine “who’s better informed, newspaper readers or Web surfers?” A question that will supposedly be answered in some fashion –if “highly unscientific[ally]” — after “two (mostly) newspaper journalists” and “two (mostly) Web journalists” read for the next three days only print newspapers (for the former) and only non-newspaper-related Web content (for the latter) and then Slate posts “a discussion of the day’s news in which our guinea pigs’ knowledge and understandingā€”or ignorance and misunderstandingā€”of the news will be informally tested.”

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.