go over every popular news article I've ever read and the actual study it was based on that I then dug up to verify/counter their conclusions. I mean, it's a lot. Like asking "when has a politician ever promised one thing then done another".
In this specific case someone has done the work for me though: http://psysociety.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/careful-science-journalism
For point 2 if you're trying to draw direct comparisons (in this case "watching jersey shore makes you dumb"
you need to make the experiment as close to what you are trying to compare it to as possible. In this case they changed not only the story (soccer hooligans versus guidos) but also the media (written/video). Adding more variables makes it less and less applicable. We know that people process video differently than the written word (for instance: no one goes to school to learn how to watch TV). So looking at brain processes for response to video by studying response to writing is going to be inherently weak.
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