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Science Proves (Again) That Watching Fox News Makes You Dumber Than Not Watching Any News At All
So why can’t we stop watching?
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4 min readJul 1, 2022
If watching Fox News makes people dumb, why do we keep watching?
Aside from the paradox that the dumber you are, the harder it is to perceive your own dumbness…
Who likes Fox News?
As far as ratings go, Fox News is #1.
Despite its clever branding claiming otherwise, Fox News Channel (FNC) is far and away the most popular mainstream cable news network. Since its inception in 1996, the channel has grown bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
But in 2012, a much-publicized study revealed a shocking crack in the Faux News facade.