Jessica Lynch
PEJ examines how the Lynch saga grew and changed in the media over time.
10:00-11:30 a.m. Washington, D.C. Featured Speaker: Andrew Kohut, Director, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Respondents: Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund Justin Vaisse, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Center on the U.S. and France, the Brookings Institution Moderator: E.J. Dionne Jr., Co-Chair, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; […]
Timeslot, Diversity, and Ratings Timeslot Makes A Difference One question about the data is whether differences in timeslot might alter the results. Over the five years of study, we have found a consistent tendency for early evening newscasts to be stronger than late night. Generally, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts-those preceding prime time-tend to […]
Conference Sources of Human Rights: Religion’s Role in Defining Human Dignity Sunday, October 6, 2002 Andover Newton Theological School and Hebrew College Newton Centre, MA At a time when headlines are dominated by human rights abuses worldwide, the ways in which religions define human rights merit closer scrutiny. Are human rights divinely ordained? Does one […]
Key Findings By Alex Halavais University at Buffalo, School of Informatics A “Webscape” of examples for this section can be found at: http://september11.archive.org/webscape/hal/ The 9/11 attacks and their aftermath generated the most traffic to traditional news sites in the history of the Web. Equally as important was the fact that many non-news sites were turned […]
Health information, taxes, and more A new urgency for health information Half of government site users (49%) have sought health and safety advice from government sources. There are no notable demographic differences in this use of government sites. The evenness of demand suggests that the government is a widely trusted authority on health issues. Even […]
by Andrew Kohut for America Online
For all Roger Ailes’ talk of CNN’s possible bias and Fox’s patriotism, it isn’t born out in the numbers the study examined. Looking at the two signature evening newscasts of the two cable networks over nine days, there was no appreciable difference. Taking all three phases studied together, the sample is admittedly small. Most of […]