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    Liberal Talkers Cheer the “I” Word – and so Does Rush

    Dennis Kucinich’s call to impeach Vice President Cheney made nary a blip with the general media last week but it was a big story on in the talk media, especially on the left side of the talk radio dial. Meanwhile the many angles of the 2008 campaign gave everyone grist to talk about.

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    Teens’ online activities and gadgets

    Introduction Fully 93% of teens use the internet, and teen use of the internet has intensified in recent years. In 2006, 89% of teens accessed the internet from home.  This is fairly consistent with our survey data from 2000 and 2004, which showed that a similar percentage of teens accessing the internet from home. Home […]

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    The Talkers Hammer Hillary Clinton

    Thanks in part to the Democrats’ spirited debate in Philadelphia, last week was the biggest week of the year for the presidential campaign in the universe of radio and cable talk shows. The main course was the Democratic front runner who got carved up by hosts and pundits of various political stripes.

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    News Judgments By Outlet

    In the third quarter, some patterns among different media sectors and outlets continued to reveal themselves. One such pattern is the basic similarity in the news judgment on the three nightly commercial broadcast network newscasts. From July through September, the lineup of the top four stories—the Iraq war policy debate, followed by events inside Iraq, […]

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    The 2008 Campaign: Steady Coverage with Clinton as Top Newsmaker

    For at least a few days this summer, even Hillary Clinton’s neckline became a campaign issue. On July 20, the same day the Washington Post published a story about Clinton’s “tentative dip into new neckline territory,” a segment on “senatorial cleavage” was part of the MSNBC Hardball lineup. One guest, feminist author Naomi Wolf, dismissed […]

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    TOPLINE Iraq Ground Events Study January 1-October 31, 2007    Reporting by Media Sector Frequency % of Stories Newspapers 122 11.0% Online 170 15.3 Network TV 465 41.9 Cable TV 292 26.3 Radio 60 5.4 Total 1109 100%   Reporting by Month Across All Media Outlets Frequency % of Stories January 129 11.6% February 133 […]

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    A Year Ahead, Republicans Face Tough Political Terrain

    Introduction and Summary A year before the 2008 presidential election, most major national opinion trends decidedly favor the Democrats. Discontent with the state of the nation is markedly greater than it was four years ago. President Bush’s approval rating has fallen from 50% to 30% over this period. And the Democrats’ advantage over the Republicans […]

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    Optimists About Housing Prices

    As recently as June, more than six-in-ten Americans (62%) still expected U.S. housing prices to continue to rise.

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    The Precarious State of Statehouse Budgets

    A slumping housing market and skimpier sales tax collections are busting budgets from California to Florida with national job growth sluggish and consumer confidence near a two-year low.