"On a battery of psychological and cognitive tests administered to military conscripts, young men from areas with more Mediaset exposure were between 8 percent and 25 percent more likely to earn the lowest scores. On an international test conducted in 2012, Italian adults from places where they first would have been exposed to Mediaset under age 10 had math and reading scores that were significantly worse than those of their peers. They were also less civically minded and less politically active."
How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders
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| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 23, 2019 11:57 AM |
Populism is NOT a dirty word.
Democratic leaders are popular leaders.
Democrat is all about popularity.
People who don't like populism are ELITEST.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 23, 2019 11:44 AM |
Yes pretty much.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 23, 2019 11:46 AM |
The only thing Paddy Chayefsky got wrong was that it would be the marriage of right-wing politics, not left-wing, that television would use to destroy America.
Fortunately the death of cable and linear viewing may be the thing that saves the day.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 23, 2019 11:52 AM |
Fake News, sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 23, 2019 11:57 AM |