News Finding: How Online Ideological News Exposure Promotes Political Misperceptions -Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication  
Paper Finding: That leaves one last effect of biased outlet exposure that could promote ideologically favorable misperceptions.
News Context: How Online Ideological News Exposure Promotes Political Misperceptions -Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication  
Paper Context: Summarizing the results so far, data are consistent with the assertion that ideologically oriented websites do shape users' understanding of evidence surrounding some contested political facts, but the effect is modest in magnitude and limited in scope. That leaves one last effect of biased outlet exposure that could promote ideologically favorable misperceptions. Here again descriptive data are compelling: 90.3% of Democrats who know what journalists believe about President Obama's birthplace have reached this conclusion themselves, while only 66.7% of Republicans who accurately perceive journalists' positions do the same.