Study: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All [1]

Source: www.businessinsider.com [2] | Original Post Date: May 22, 2012 –

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Media outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge [4] while NPR [5] and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative sources of news, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s newest PublicMind survey.

Researchers asked 1,185 random nationwide respondents what news sources they had consumed in the past week and then asked them questions about events in the U.S. and abroad.

On average, people correctly answered 1.6 of 5 questions about domestic affairs.

Because the aim of the study was to isolate the effects of ea...