Obama, Race and Media Coverage
Race-related themes were present in 9% of all Obama administration news coverage from early 2009 to early 2010.
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Public Still Focused on Egypt as Coverage Fades
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 […]
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Midterm Election Coverage Kicks into High Gear
With balloting little more than a month away, the 2010 congressional elections again topped the media agenda as a good chunk of that narrative focused on the power and potential of the tea party. And one factor that will clearly influence the outcome on election night, the state of the U.S. economy, was the No. 2 topic.
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Mobile Access 2010
Six in ten American adults now go online wirelessly using either a mobile phone or a laptop with a wireless internet connection. Americans are also taking advantage of a much wider range of cell phone data applications than at a similar point in 2…
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Part One: The current state of wireless internet use
The current state of wireless internet use As of May 2010, six in ten American adults (59%) are wireless internet users. Due to the quickly evolving nature of mobile technologies, our definition of a wireless internet user has changed several times since we began studying this topic; throughout this report, a wireless internet user is […]
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Attitudes towards broadband and broadband investment
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 […]
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From Madison to Manama, a Week Filled with Protests
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.
