Follow-up: Fact-Free News
By Harold Meyerson, in today's WaComPo:
'Ever worry that millions of your fellow Americans are walking around knowing things that you don't? That your prospects for advancement may depend on your mastery of such arcana as who won the Iraqi war or where exactly Europe is?
'Then don't watch Fox News. The more you watch, the more you'll get things wrong.
'In the case of those who primarily watched Fox News, greater attention increases the likelihood of misperceptions. Particularly when that news includes hyping every false lead in Iraq as the certain prelude to uncovering a massive WMD cache.'
October 15, 2003
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