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 […]
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Part 2. Demographics
Background Men, especially young, white, educated, and fairly affluent men, were the earliest adopters of the internet. Surveys by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press in 1995 showed that about 20% of American adults used the internet and the online population was 58% male. By March 2000, the internet population had […]
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An Uncertain Road: Muslims and the Future of Europe
Introduction Throughout Europe today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing headscarves and men with skull caps and beards. On many European streets, shops now sport signs in Arabic and other Near Eastern languages and sell an array of exotic looking products from the Middle East and other parts of the Islamic world. Indeed, […]
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The Stories: Short Wire Copy versus Original Reporting
New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? If one were to take 20 minutes to read the tabloid front-to-back on a commuter ride, what would one get, compared with trying to read the section-front stories of the local broadsheet? (It would take longer than 20 minutes […]
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III. Iraq and the War on Terrorism
Opinion leaders express deep doubts about the decision to go to war in Iraq, and most of them believe the war has undermined the struggle against terrorism. Influentials are divided on whether to keep troops in Iraq, but most think that the U.S. will ultimately fail in its effort to create a stable democratic government […]