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    Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists

    Overview This report is part of State of the News Media 2004, a annual publication of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. Many give poor grades to the coverage offered by the types of media that serve most Americans: daily newspapers, […]

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    Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics & Justice

    2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Reception Immediately Following Washington, D.C. Panelists: Rebecca M. Blank, Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Policy and Economics, University of Michigan; Co-director of the National Poverty Center, Ford School William McGurn, Chief Editorial Writer, Wall Street Journal; member, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic […]

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    Iraq Prison Scandal Hits Home, But Most Reject Troop Pullout

    Summary of Findings Public satisfaction with national conditions has fallen to 33%, its lowest level in eight years, in the wake of revelations of prisoner abuse committed by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. President Bush’s overall job approval rating also has dropped into negative territory: 44% approve of his job performance, while […]

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    28% of American adults are wireless ready

    According to a March 2004 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 28% of Americans – and fully 41% of all Internet users – have within the past month used a laptop that can connect wirelessly to the Internet or a cell phone that lets t…

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    Harnessing E-Government: A Primer on Citizen Habits

    The major portals of Web traffic played a late, mild, yet remarkably sophisticated role in the proceedings. Some 22% of Internet users searched the Internet for campaign news during the 2002 mid-term election, but they were somewhat less successfu…