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Summary of Findings With the war in Iraq over, Americans are feeling more optimistic about a turnaround in the national economy, and a greater number than at the beginning of the year think that President Bush is doing as much as he can to improve economic conditions. But the president’s tax cut proposal continues to […]
Free-market economies and the individual freedoms that underlie them are highly favored around the world. Majorities in 33 of 44 countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project believe that people are better off in a free-market economy, even if it leads to disparities in wealth and income. But this global endorsement of capitalism goes […]
Big Versus Small Owners To examine size, we separated the TV companies studied into four categories, using the FCC rankings of audience reach1: the 10-largest TV groups; groups 11 through 25 in terms of audience reach; medium sized companies (any company below the top 25 in reach and owning at least four stations); and small […]
Democratization has taken very different paths in the countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Most Eastern European countries began their transition to democracy with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But 14 years later, many people still do not completely embrace many aspects of democracy, in part because they associate the […]
Which Ownership Produces the Best “Quality” News? Ownership Size and Quality What category of ownership best serves the public interest when it comes to news? Our five-year data sample suggests that when it comes to overall quality, smaller is better. Size of Corporate Owner and Quality Grade Grade Top 10 Groups 11-25 Groups Midsize Groups […]
Outlet Date TOTAL Network Cable 21&22 Mar 24-Mar N=108 N=57 N=51 N=72 N=36 DATE March 21st 41.7% 42.1% 41.2% 62.5% – March 22nd 25.0 24.6 25.5 37.5 – March 24th 33.3 33.3 33.3 – 100% Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% […]
Austin Free Net. (2002) “Who Uses Community Technology Centers? A Survey of Public Access Computer Users,” Austin, TX, February 2002. Available at http://www.austinfree.net/about/AFNClientSurvey.pdf as of 8/14/02. BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency). (2001) “The Digital Divide, A Discussion Paper” prepared for the British Department for Education and Employment, for a conference in February 2002. […]
For more than a decade, globalization has been a deeply divisive topic among social activists, intellectuals, business leaders, policy makers and politicians. But the global public is less divided on the subject. To varying degrees, people almost everywhere like globalization. The 38,000 people surveyed in 44 countries by the Pew Global Attitudes Project report that […]