Does Biased News Have a 'Time Bomb' Effect?
A European study shows that, over time, even the most sophisticated readers can be manipulated.
There's nobody more cynical about the media than your average European.
Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust the media, compared to 15 percent of North Americans, 29 percent of Pacific Asians and 48 percent of Africans, the BBC has found.
Yet new research out of the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests that even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are ...
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This seems to support the same thing we are seeing here in the US with Fox News and related supporters of the right wing political spectrum. Seems like the "left" or "center" better get active in the same way, but hopefully more effectively in the long run.