Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Summary of Findings The public’s interest in developments in Egypt remained high last week as the media focused increasingly on domestic debates over how to deal with the fiscal troubles facing many states and how to bring down the federal deficit. About a third of the public (32%) says they followed news about the situation […]
Americans are split in their views of how much a lack of access hurts non-users. Americans are split in their views of how much a lack of access hurts non-users. The worst disadvantage they cited related to job opportunities and career-improvement skills. In order to evaluate the importance that Americans place on a high-speed internet […]
The unveiling of the president’s fiscal blueprint as well as a fight over budget priorities in Wisconsin helped push coverage of economic issues to the top of the news agenda last week for the first time in two months. And the media turned their attention away from Egypt to neighboring nations.
Internet use and data applications using mobile phones The use of mobile data applications has grown dramatically over the last year, even as overall cell phone ownership has remained steady Eight in ten American adults (82%) currently own a cell phone of some kind, a figure that has remained fairly stable over the past year. […]
If President Obama expected his State of the Union address to dominate the media narrative last week, those plans went awry when turmoil in a crucial Mideast ally threatened to remake the region and challenge U.S. strategy. And while coverage of the economy picked up last week, attention to the Tucson shooting plunged.