Study: Use news source diversity for complex topics

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 03/02/2009 - 11:30am

In order to be well-informed on complex issues such as global warming, people need to get their information from a diversity of news sources such as newspapers, television, magazines and the Internet, according to a University of Texas at Austin researcher.

This may be bad news for people who prefer to let information find them. Assistant Professor [...]



 

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