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Don’t Know BALDWIN BACKS DOWN
Much About
Alec Baldwin won’t
relocate to Connecticut to
History (Unless
challenge Sen. Joe Lieberman
in 2012. The actor had told
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Playboy magazine he was
mulling a run because he has
HOLLYWOOD TRUMPS HISTORY. “no use” for the independent
A Washington University
Democrat. Lieberman,
study shows that even stu-
appearing on CNN’s State of
dents with facts staring
the Union, dared Baldwin to
“make my day.”
them right in the face tend
to substitute Hollywood
OBAMA SATIRE
fi ction for historical fact. Canada’s TV watchdog
“There’s something really special “We found that
wants the Canadian
about watching a fi lm that lets people when information in the fi lm was con-
Broadcasting Corp. to
publicly apologize for a
retain information from that fi lm, even sistent with the text, watching the fi lm
comedy sketch that mocked
when they had read a contradictory account clips increased correct recall by about 50
President Obama as a
in the textbook,” psychology researcher percent relative to reading the text alone,” potential thief whose skin
Andrew Butler told
LiveScience.com. Butler said. “In contrast, when informa-
color makes him more
The study groups viewed clips from tion in the fi lm directly contradicted the
visible and thus an easier
epics such as The Last Samurai and text, people often falsely recalled the mis-
assassination target. The
broadcaster denied any racist
Elizabeth. Participants also read an accu- information, sometimes as much as 50
intent, adding that race-
rate historical passage relating to each percent of the time.”
based satire “might not be to
fi lm and were given warnings about the Movies evidently stick in the mind everyone’s taste.”
accuracy of the movies. regardless of accuracy.
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