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    Cars and Appointments Dominate the News

    The future of the automobile industry became a major component of the country’s ongoing economic problems last week, and speculation about Obama’s cabinet appointments reached a new level.

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    Scenario 3: The Evolution of IP Law and Copyright Protection

    Prediction and Reactions PREDICTION:  Content control through copyright-protection technology dominates. In 2020, strict content controls are in place thanks to the efforts of legislatures, courts, the technology industry, and media companies. Those who use copyrighted materials are automatically billed by content owners, and Internet service providers automatically notify authorities when they identify clients who try […]

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    Views of Palin Fluid as Spotlight Remains on GOP Ticket

    Summary of Findings Sarah Palin continued to be a dominant factor in presidential campaign coverage last week, but her impact on the race remains unclear and her public image is very much in flux. Palin clearly has boosted John McCain’s visibility. From mid-June through the last week of August, Barack Obama consistently led McCain as […]

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    Religion and Race: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

    Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America. Specifically, he described historical […]

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    II. Current Estimates and Trends

    As of March 2008, 11.9 million undocumented immigrants were living in the United States. This represents an increase since 2005, when the Pew Hispanic Center estimated there were 11.1 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The number has risen by more than 40% since 2000, when it was estimated at 8.4 million. The estimate of […]

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    After Busy Week, Views of Both Candidates Improve

    Summary of Findings Interest in the presidential election surged last week, with the public following campaign news more closely than at any point since the Super Tuesday primaries in February. As attention to the campaign has increased, the images of both Barack Obama and John McCain have improved in recent days. In a survey conducted […]

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    Topline-Six Months of News Coverage Index Data

    This topline expresses the data for the first six months of 2008 from the PEJ’s weekly tracking of media coverage, The News Coverage Index (NCI). The NCI studies, on a weekly basis, the national news agenda across 48 different news outlets. The data for the entire year of 2008 will be released as part of […]

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    Winning the Media Campaign

    With fewer than two weeks left before election day, how has the press covered the race for president? How has the tone of McCain’s coverage compared with Obama’s, or Palin’s. A new PEJ study from the conventions through the last debate offers answers.

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    As the Candidates Head Down the Stretch, Horse Race Dominates

    Colin Powell’s endorsement and Joe Biden’s gaffe were almost one-day wonders last week as the news cycle sped up in the campaign’s final days. Now, it’s battleground states and polls that seem to be capturing much of the media’s attention.