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    Public Disillusionment with Congress at Record Levels

    Summary of Findings The American public is angry with Congress, and this is bad news for the Republican Party. The belief that this Congress has accomplished less than its predecessors is markedly higher than at any point in the past nine years, and by a wide margin Republican leaders are blamed for this. Many more […]

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    Supreme Court Upholds Oregon’s Right to Die Law

    The Federal Government’s Attempt to Use an Anti-Drug Law to Stop Physician-Assisted Suicide Fails By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court today upheld Oregon’s assisted-suicide law, rejecting an attempt by the Bush administration to use a federal anti-drug law to prohibit doctors from helping terminally ill patients to end their own lives. The decision is […]

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    The Methodology

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Methodology The print media—tabloids and broadsheets—were subject to a specific methodological approach regarding sampling and selection and coding. In all, the study examined some 2,321 stories. This included 981 newspaper-owned tabloid stories, 634 independent-owned tabloids stories and 706 broadsheet […]

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    Topline

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Topline Total n = 2,321 Note: Totals may not equal 100 due to rounding. Number of Stories per Paper in Sample Outlet # of stories Boston Metro 321 Boston Globe 222 DC Express 367 DC Examiner 634 * Washington […]

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    The Examiner

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? The Examiner So where does the Washington Examiner, the independent tabloid, fall? As mentioned above, it has more pages and more stories than the other tabloids. It also does not make the same appeal to younger readers with cover […]

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    The Quality of Knowledge

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? The Quality of Knowledge If the tabloids offer a broader though less local news agenda, what is it that readers get and what are they missing? The trade off might be described as knowing a little about a lot […]

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    China’s Optimism

    On his Beijing trip, President Bush will visit a nation whose people are upbeat about their past and future personal advancement as shown in newly released survey data.

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    Russia’s Weakened Democratic Embrace

    The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll finds the Russian people would choose a strong economy over a good democracy by a margin of almost six to one.

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    Aiming at Younger Audiences

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Aiming at Younger Audiences A major aspect of new free tabloids, according to their own descriptions, was their orientation toward youth. Newspaper readership, like much news consumption, skews old. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53, according […]