Fox News Isn’t

News: “A new study suggests Fox News viewers aren’t just manipulated and misinformed — they are literally being made ignorant by their consumption habits.”

“According to Broockman and Kalla, when these Fox viewers watched CNN, they heard about all sorts of things Fox wasn’t telling them. They processed that information. They took it in. They became more knowledgeable about what was really going on in the United States.”

—Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch, “Fox News Isn’t News,” NBC Think, April 9, 2022.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: They can be saved! There's hope.

 

 

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