More News Is Not Necessarily Good News
by Andrew Kohut in the New York Times
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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What the Study Examined
To a large degree, journalists and political scientists have noted that presidential campaigns are dominated by a handful of themes, usually those that revolve around the character of the candidates. These might be called the “master narratives” of the campaign and they can raise or sink a candidacy. In a way, these master or metanarratives […]
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I. Where Americans Go for News
Americans’ news habits have changed little over the past two years. Network and local TV news viewership has been largely stable since 2002. Daily newspaper readership remains at 42% (it was 41% two years ago). And the percentage of Americans who listen to news on the radio on a typical day is virtually unchanged since […]
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Part 3. Demographic and other group differences
Men pursue and consume the news online more than women do. The popularity of getting news from the Internet has grown over the years, with additional boosts following major news events like September 11 or the start of the Iraq war. Since 2000, when the Pew Internet & American Life Project began tracking participation in […]
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30 million Americans have seen war-related images online that mainstream news organizations deemed too graphic or disturbing to display
Washington, D.C. (For release at 5 p.m. July 8)—New research by the Pew Internet Project shows that during some of the most turbulent weeks of the Iraq war nearly one quarter of Internet users (24%) went online to view some of most graphic war images that were deemed too gruesome or horrific for newspapers and […]
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Part 2. The new experience of war images online
Americans are turning to the Internet for news coverage they can’t find in the mainstream news media. During recent months, a significant number of Americans have been turning to the Internet as a source of news and pictures that are not available in the mainstream media. This has come at a time of intense and […]
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News Audiences Increasingly Politicized
Overview Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public’s news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox […]
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Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations
10:00am-11:30am Washington, D.C. Speakers: Ambassador Robert A. Seiple (Ret.), Founder and Chairman of the Board, Institute for Global Engagement; co-editor, Religion & Security Colonel Charles P. Borchini, USA (Ret.), Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, USMC Moderator: Dr. Pauletta Otis, Senior Fellow in Religion & International Affairs, Pew Forum on Religion & Public […]
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Part 2. The Internet’s value in everyday life: Americans admire it and find it a useful tool
The survey polled users’ participation in 18 everyday activities that belonged to four clearcut categories. To assemble a good list of activities, we followed insights gained from previous research and divided online activities into four categories: information seeking; communications; transactions; and entertainment. We chose several examples for each category. These examples are not meant to […]