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    Focus of Coverage

    If the tone of coverage of Obama’s first days in office differed significantly from that of Bill Clinton and George Bush, so too did the focus of stories about the new President. Compared with his predecessors, the press narrative about Obama featured considerably less attention to policy and ideology and substantially more to such matters […]

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    Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media

    Overview Americans like science. Overwhelming majorities say that science has had a positive effect on society and that science has made life easier for most people. Most also say that government investments in science, as well as engineering and technology, pay off in the long run. And scientists are very highly rated compared with members […]

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    Total Amount of Coverage

    Given his popularity, some might imagine that Obama has generated media attention like few presidents before him. It isn’t so. One major reason for the difference is that the space in newspapers even among the country’s biggest has gotten so much smaller. There were 324 stories about Clinton in the first two months of his […]

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    State of the News Media 2009: Newspapers

    The newspaper industry exited a harrowing 2008 and entered 2009 in something perilously close to free fall. Perhaps some parachutes will deploy, and maybe some tree limbs will cushion the descent, but for a third consecutive year the bottom is not in sight.

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    Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media

    A new survey of scientists and the public finds large majorities holding positive views of science. But scientists are concerned about Americans’ ignorance of scientific findings and large differences exist between the two groups’ views on evolution and global warming. Still, overwhelming percentages in both groups think that government investments in science and technology pay off in the long run.

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    Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media

    A new survey of scientists and the public finds large majorities holding positive views of science. But scientists are concerned about Americans’ ignorance of scientific findings and large differences exist between the two groups’ views on evolution and global warming. Still, overwhelming percentages in both groups think that government investments in science and technology pay off in the long run.

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    News vs. Opinion

    One other difference is that Obama has won the narrative in both the news accounts in print and TV and in the opinion pages. That was not the case for Clinton and Bush. Looking at only news accounts, (removing newspaper op eds and editorials as well as Newsweek magazine) Bush’s coverage in 2001 was actually […]

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    U.S Spanish-Language Print

    By contrast, the Spanish-language papers in the United States covered the issue more heavily in their front pages than their English-language counterparts. But for at least two of the papers, the additional coverage came from wires rather than staff reporters. Overall, the three largest Spanish-language newspapers averaged 12 articles per paper over the 12 twelve […]