Terror makes us more informed

We know that September 11 changed everything -- here's yet more proof. A study published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies concludes that multi-lingual families and households in the UK started changing their viewing habits after acts of terrorism, turning to news services other than English-language sources, after developing a perception of Western bias.

It's a "no-duh" that maybe needed articulation. But why had the bi-cultural families stopped watching or reading their ethnic news sources in the first place? Had the multi-lingual families been dumbing down to fit in? Further, the researchers found a highly nuanced understanding of political and international matters from news culled from such a wide range of sources -- this, in turn, set the foreign families at odds again with their English-only neighbors. The more you know, the worse off it is.