No Wonder Why People Are So Stupid

Well, at least 22% of us. That’s how many of us get our news from talk radio. This figure was just put out by Gallup and it is twice as high as it was four years ago.

“The growing trend of news in this country is interpretation ahead of the facts, of talk rather than information,” said Amy Mitchell, associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to raising the standards of American journalism.

This is just so unfortunate.

LA Times: 22% of Americans get news from talk jocks

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