What Happens When You Force The Right to Watch Real News
What Happens When You Force Fox News Viewers to Watch Real News
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Yale decided to find out.
Political scientists David Broockman and Joshua Kalla recruited 763 hardcore Fox News viewers for a peer-reviewed study published in the American Political Science Review in 2023. Overwhelmingly white men, average age 54, watching 14 hours of Fox News every single week. The researchers paid them $15 an hour to watch CNN instead during prime time. One hour a day. For an entire month. They even gave them weekly quizzes to make sure they were actually paying attention.
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The skinny
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