A group at Fairleigh Dickinson found that talk radio listeners are surprisingly well informed:
People who didn’t have any reported exposure to news sources were expected to answer 1.28 questions correctly, a figure which rose to 1.97 for people just listening to NPR, to 1.60 for people just watching The Daily Show or listening to talk radio, and 1.52 for people watching Sunday morning shows.
Here's the "no suprise":
The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.
Results for questions about international current events were similar. ...
By contrast, people who reported watching just Fox News were expected to answer just 1.08 questions correctly.
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Sean Hannity had Powell on this past Tuesday w/o ever asking him one time to apologize for lying about the WMDs at the UN.
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