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    News Media and Political Attitudes in Denmark

    Findings about news media views and habits in Denmark from a survey about media, political attitudes and populist views across eight Western European countries.

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    News Media and Political Attitudes in France

    Findings about news media views and habits in France from a survey about media, political attitudes and populist views across eight Western European countries.

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    D’Vera Cohn

    D’Vera Cohn is a senior writer at the Pew Research Center. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the Census.

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    Many people in other countries closely follow news about the U.S.

    Across 37 countries surveyed in the spring of 2017, a median of 48% say they closely follow news about the U.S., compared with 50% who do not. Interest in news about the U.S. is highest in Canada, where 78% say they track it closely. Next highest is the Netherlands (75%), followed by some of America’s closest allies: Japan, Germany and Australia. Across 10 European nations, a median of 51% say they follow news about America closely.

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    3. Fifty-fifty anecdotes: How digital life has been both positive and negative

    A number of these experts wrote about both sides of the story, taking the time to point out some of the ways in which digital life is a blessing and a curse. A selection of these mixed-response anecdotes follows. James M. Hinton, an author, commented, “Having grown up in the pre-internet era, my childhood was […]

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    2. The negatives of digital life

    There were considerably fewer complaints about the personal impact among these expert respondents. But their own lives and observations give testimony that there are ways in which digital life has ill-served some participants. The following anecdotes speak to the themes that the internet has not helped some users’ well-being. If someone would have told me […]

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    Michael Barthel

    Michael Barthel is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, where he focuses on U.S. public opinion of the news media, journalism, and social media. He is the author of reports on the newspaper and public broadcasting media sectors, fake news, civic engagement and news habits, attitudes toward the news media, and Americans’ use of […]