Reading the paper affects your vote

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS INTERACT with voters mostly through the media, and the question of whether the media is biased is more or less constantly being debated. Researchers decided to test whether newspaper coverage affects the politics of its readers. They offered households in a remote suburb of Washington, D.C., free 10-week subscriptions to either the more-liberal Washington Post or the more-conservative ... (Full article: 788 words)

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