On Factual Literacy and Media Responsibility In The Age Of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh

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This New York Timesย online editorial last week by Tim Egan, โ€œBuilding a Nation of Know-Nothings,โ€ says a lot about the need for literacy, respect for facts and rational thought all being important building blocks for democracy. ย 

Egan notes the โ€œastonishing level of willful ignoranceโ€ evident among the public, thanks to the lies and distortions put forwardย โ€œlargely by designโ€ย by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, โ€œaided by a press afraid to call out the primary architects of theย lies.โ€

Egan correctly points out that this pattern is all too often seen on the subject of globalย warming:

โ€œClimate-change denial is a special category all its own. Once on the fringe, dismissal of scientific consensus is now an article of faith among leading Republicans, again taking their cue from Limbaugh and Fox.โ€ย 

Read โ€œBuilding a Nation of Know-Nothingsโ€ on The New York Times website.ย 

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