A 2008 academic study
compared the level of public knowledge about current events in Denmark,
Finland, England and the U.S. It found that the countries with TV/radio
dominated by public broadcasting -- Denmark and Finland -- were the
best informed. Our country, dominated by corporate commercial media, was
the least informed. The study's authors suggest that differing media
systems play a role in those results.
A 2003 study
of U.S. public knowledge of facts related to the Iraq War found that
misperceptions were greatest among those whose primary info source was
Fox News -- and least among those whose primary info source was public
broadcasting. (A Pew poll
taken in Aug. 2010 found that almost 1 in 5 Americans believed
President Obama to be a Muslim; only 34% knew he is a Christian. 43%
chose "don't know.")
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