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By Sarah Stacy - KU Student
Our generation is growing up with dramatically greater access to information than any other, yet paradoxically, political knowledge hasn’t increased. The vast number of choices has allowed indolent Americans to avoid in-depth news coverage altogether in exchange for infotainment and petty political theater.
In a study published in the July 2005 “American Journal of Political Science,” Princeton Professor Markus Prior states that because politics increasingly has to compete with entertainment, there’s a growing disparity in political knowledge between those who seek out political information and those who prefer amusement over substantive programming.
There are still some estimable news sources that we can rely on and we might even learn something valuable from.
Although that conclusion isn’t exactly earth-shattering, it does indicate that both the media and citizens are doing a crummy job at bolstering democracy. Read more »
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