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CNN’s morning show, New Day has an odd obsession with attacking Fox News and “right wing media.” For the second day in a row, co-hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar hyped a study from a liberal media-beloved academic that blames conservative media for spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories.  On Wednesday’s show, Berman was supposed to be asking CDC Director Rochelle Walensky about coronavirus guidelines. Instead he got political, actually prodding the CDC director to "blame" “c...

A recent study says that conservative media consumers are more likely to believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories and refuse masks

Credit: Image by Marcus Trapp from Pixabay A new study shows that the proportion of gun violence relative to other forms of violence in TV dramas increased from 2000 to 2018, with statistical parallels to trends in actual gun homicides among U.S. youths. Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer of the University of Pennsylvanias Annenberg Public Policy Center present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 17, 2021. Firearm injuries and deaths are a major public health concern ...