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    Web Photos

    A quarter (23%) of online adults say that photos of them are accessible on the web.

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    American Buddhists

    Only about a third (32%) of Buddhists in the United States are Asian; a majority (53%) are white, and most are converts to Buddhism.

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    Rate US Economy Good or Excellent

    Fewer than one-in-five Americans (17%) now rate the US economy as performing well — a sharp decline from the already low number (26%) who viewed the economy as in good or excellent state in the first month of 2008

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    Democrats’ Media Narrative Roiled By Racial Tensions

    When it came to coverage, John McCain was a forgotten man compared with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But perhaps no news was good news for the GOP in a week during which the press highlighted some of the uglier divisions among Democrats.

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    State of the News Media 2008

    The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual report finds that the current crisis in journalism may be less the loss of audience than the decoupling of news and advertising. On the upside, some news organizations have become places of risk and innovation with growing connection with audiences.

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    Financial Woes Now Overshadow All Other Concerns for Journalists

    Summary of Findings The financial crisis facing news organizations is so grave that it is now overshadowing concerns about the quality of news coverage, the flagging credibility of the news media, and other problems that have been very much on the minds of journalists over the past decade. An ever larger majority of journalists at […]

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    What Foreign Policy Agenda?

    Presidential challengers — and the ultimate winner — will face a public that is disillusioned, downbeat and partisan about foreign affairs but far from clear about what it wants done.

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    What Foreign Policy Agenda?

    Issues have hardly played a dominant role in the nominating races, especially on the Democratic side. Still, the public has a clear domestic agenda for the next president. Fix the economy, reduce health care costs, improve the environment, reform education, deal with rising energy costs and so on. This hearty appetite for an assertive domestic […]

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    Public Closely Tracking Details of Campaign

    Summary of Findings Not only are Americans following election news in record numbers this year, they are tracking the details of the campaign — the charges, countercharges and controversial advertisements — extremely closely. Large majorities say they have heard at least something about rumors that Barack Obama is a Muslim; Hillary Clinton’s 3:00 a.m. phone […]