Title: 
Headings: Churchill’s Argument Against Democracy: The Average Voter.
Information
 
Levels
 
and
 
News
 
Sources
 
among
 
Americans
 

Kyle
 
Priest
 
Bemidji
 
State
 
University
 

Political
 
Science
 
Senior
 
Thesis
 

Abstract
 

Introduction
 

Literature
 
Review
 

The
 
Start
 
of
 
Always-on
 
News
 

The
 
Rise
 
of
 
Misinformed
 
Voters
 

Miller
 
and
 
Orr
 
on
 
the
 
Don’t
 
Know
 
option
 

The
 
Data
 

The
 
Research
 

Discussion
 

Works
 
Cited
 

Report
 


Content: This
 
helped
 
drive
 
the
 
more
 
conservative
 
viewers
 
to
 
the
 
channel,
 
and
 
in
 
response,
 
CNN
 
slowly
 
shifted
 
to
 
a
 
more
 
liberal
 
bias
 
(DellaVigna
 
&
 
Kaplan,
 
2006). Now
 
even
 
though
 
CNN
 
started
 
off
 
as
 
a
 
basic,
 
non-biased
 
news
 
channel,
 
Fox
 
News
 
actually
 
planned
 
on
 
being
 
biased
 
and
 
it
 
is
 
seen
 
by
 
the
 
content
 
they
 
provide. Before
 
Fox
 
News,
 
avoiding
 
bias
 
was
 
more
 
of
 
an
 
issue,
 
and
 
the
 
main
 
goal
 
was
 
to
 
get
 
to
 
the
 
facts
 
and
 
the
 
up-to-date
 
news
 
to
 
the
 
public. Fox
 
News,
 
however,
 
aimed
 
to
 
make
 
news
 
entertainment,
 
and
 
by
 
focusing
 
it
 
on
 
anchors
 
who
 
feel
 
strongly
 
about
 
a
 
subject
 
and
 
do
 
not
 
try
 
to
 
hide
 
their
 
bias,
 
they
 
changed
 
the
 
game
 
of
 
television
 
news
 
and
 
politics
 
in
 
the
 
media
 
(Ackerman,
 
2001). Now
 
that
 
we
 
know
 
about
 
the
 
channels,
 
why
 
does
 
Fox
 
News
 
seem
 
so
 
much
 
more
 
biased
 
than
 
everyone
 
else? This
 
has
 
to
 
do
 
with
 
how
 
we
 
perceive
 
bias,
 
and
 
to
 
understand
 
this
 
is
 
essential
 
to
 
knowing
 
how
 
it
 
can
 
lead
 
to
 
false
 
knowledge. Firstly,
 
it
 
has
 
been
 
shown
 
that
 
the
 
more
 
someone
 
is
 
active
 
in
 
politics,
 
the
 
better
 
they
 
are
 
able
 
to
 
perceive
 
bias. By
 
being
 
active
 
in
 
politics,
 
the
 
person
 
usually
 
cares
 
about
 
the
 
topic
 
more
 
than
 
someone
 
who
 
knows
 
nothing
 
about
 
politics,
 
and
 
when
 
someone
 
cares
 
more,
 
they
 
are
 
more
 
likely
 
to
 
feel
 
that
 
another
 
news
 
source
 
is
 
biased
 
against
 
them. Another
 
additive
 
to
 
feeling
 
biased
 
by
 
the
 
news
 
media
 
is
 
something
 
that
 
just
 
emerged
 
recently,
 
social
 
media. Before
 
social
 
media,
 
one
 
had
 
to
 
call
 
or
 
write
 
or
 
even
 
talk
 
to
 
someone
 
in
 
person
 
to
 
discuss
 
ideas.