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In the second quarter of 2007, the presidential campaign took over center stage. It was the top storyline overall, accounting for 9% of the newshole and edging out any one of the three Iraq story threads. (The Iraq war coverage combined amassed 15% of the newshole this quarter, but campaign coverage supplanted each of the […]
A second category of Supreme Court decisions focuses on permanent, rather than seasonal, religious displays that involve some form of government sponsorship. Most of these cases involve displays of the Ten Commandments. The Stone Decision The court’s first such decision came in Stone v. Graham (1980), a case that focused on a Kentucky statute requiring […]
Clinton Garnering the Most Potential Support Where do white, non-Hispanic Catholics stand with regard to the announced and potential Democratic presidential candidates? A June survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press sheds light on this question at this stage of the campaign by measuring name recognition and likelihood of support […]
One of the biggest trends in online information is the two-way conversation. To what extent did the candidate Web sites take advantage of the potential for users to “converse” with candidates and the campaign? To a greater extent than many information sites. All candidates offer at least one way for users to “converse” with the […]
Sites Studied Joe Biden (D) http://www.joebiden.com/home Sam Brownback (R) http://www.brownback.com/s Hillary Clinton (D) http://www.hillaryclinton.com/?splash=1 John Cox (R) http://www.cox2008.com/cox/ Christopher Dodd (R) http://www.chrisdodd.com/home John Edwards (D) http://johnedwards.com/ James Gilmore (R) http://www.gilmoreforpresident.com/index.php Rudolph Giuliani (R) http://www.joinrudy2008.com/ Mike Gravel (D) http://www.gravel2008.us/ Mike Huckabee (R) http://www.explorehuckabee.com/ Duncan Hunter (R) http://www.gohunter08.com/ Dennis Kucinich (D) http://kucinich.us/ John McCain (R) http://johnmccain.com/ Barack […]
In a speech to graduating seniors at Boston University, PEJ Senior Counselor Bill Kovach discussed the need for citizens to carefully sort through disinformation and news to define a “reality” that offers the best understanding of our increasingly complicated democracy.
How did the attention devoted to the Iraq war and the 2008 elections affect the overall impression of the issues and events in the first quarter of the year? Grouping stories according to their broad topic areas—foreign affairs, crime, health, politics, science—helps paint that bigger picture and provide a sense of what has and has […]