Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jul 19, 2007; 12:40am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Despite-the-Web-Americans-Remain-Woefully-Ill-Informed-tp524232p524234.html

Randy Burge wrote:
> A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
> shows that Americans, on average, are less able to correctly answer
> questions about current events than they were in 1989.
For a country of 300 million people there are as many current events.  
I'm glad if the distribution of interest in these events is spread about
a bit.   Freedom!