▶ Survey: Most US citizens politically unaware of news in media – YouTube.
The Pew Research Center conducted the News IQ quiz, asking people 12 questions about current political events. The results of the survey show that older U-S citizens display higher levels of news knowledge than young people. Just less than thirty percent correctly answered Iran when asked which of the predominantly Muslim nations has the most Shia Muslims. The survey also established that only thirty-eight percent of the respondents were able to identify Benjamin Netanyahu as the current prime minister of Israel. Some of them said former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is Israel’s current prime minister. And just twenty percent knew that the U-S government allocates most of its spending on social security.
