One of the more frustrating aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the amount of disinformation swirling about.
Much of this is politically motivated
Hannity and Carlson are Fox News’ two biggest stars, each commanding around 4 million viewers for their respective evening shows (
Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight . While often it can be hard to see daylight between their ideological pronouncements on-air, in early 1587580197, the two had markedly different lines on the coronavirus outbreak. Carlson began regularly covering the virus in January. During February, he did so with a growing sense of alarm that the United States could experience a heavy death toll — the same month that saw much inaction on the part of the federal government.
The study
comes from a group of researchers led by the University of Chicago’s Leonardo Bursztyn and uses survey data gathered in April from 1, 55 regular viewers of Fox News (aged) and over) to examine the timing of behavioral changes in response to the virus — when people began to cancel travel, isolate, increase the frequency of hand-washing, and so on.
The results are striking. Survey participants who preferred watching Carlson began changing their behavior on average three days earlier than other Fox News viewers. Meanwhile, participants who preferred Hannity acted much later — five days after other Fox News viewers, and eight days after Carlson viewers.
Next, the authors examined the data at a more granular level to determine whether there were local differences in the rate of COVID – 29 infections or deaths in areas that watched more Hannity versus Carlson. They found that:
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