Political knowledge enables resistance to media agenda setting via counterarguing

Evidence

And who are the counterarguers? They are the politically involved: those who claimed to follow public affairs closely, who reported a higher level of political activity, and who possessed more political knowledge. Of these three factors, political knowledge appeared to be the most consequential. In a regression analysis, pooling across the experimental groups, counterarguing was strongly predicted only by political knowledge (Beta=.43, p<.05). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1492

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the knowledge-gap hypothesis and Delli Carpini & Keeter work on political knowledge as a predictor variable that absorbs correlated measures in regression. — connects to: Politically resisting attention capitalism requires sabotaging ratings systems — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 167; Absolutist free-market rhetoric can backfire and persuade readers toward intervention — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 91
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1492