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One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:21PM from the you-don't-learn-things-by-watching-the-news dept.

ideonexus writes "The Pew group has released its annual study into the state of news media. They conclude that science and technology content is a rare treat for cable newscast viewers; some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."

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Slashdot? by BaphometLaVey · 2008-03-17 23:27 · Score: 0, Troll

I think the average slashdot user can spend as much time on slashdot and read even less than a minutes worth of science. The articles are traps anyway. That aside, people tend to watch drama and reality TV, are we surprised there isn't any science there?