Medicare D and the Internet
I recently helped my parents enroll in their new Medicare prescription drug plans using the Medicare.gov website…
New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Aiming at Younger Audiences A major aspect of new free tabloids, according to their own descriptions, was their orientation toward youth. Newspaper readership, like much news consumption, skews old. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53, according […]
Looking into the future, many opinion leaders see China and India, with their huge populations and rapidly expanding economies, as increasingly important partners for the U.S. Pluralities in four of the eight opinion leader groups identify China as a country that will be more important to the U.S. in the future, while pluralities in another […]
This week in federal district court, a group of parents is challenging the Dover, Pa. school board’s decision to require the teaching of “intelligent design” in science classes, on the grounds that this policy violates the principle of separation of church and state. The case is just the latest in a long series of court […]
A compendium of press criticism General Press Criticism “Covering New Orleans: The Decade Before the Storm” Byron Calame, The New York Times, September 11, 2005 “Hearings Tempest Downgraded to Tropical Storm” Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post, September 12, 2005 “Why Katrina Spawned no Media Stars” Jon Friedman, MarketWatch, September 12, 2005 “Why Levee Breaches in […]
Executive Summary Paper presented to the 33rd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference September 24, 2005 John B. Horrigan Director of Research Pew Internet & American Life Project jhorrigan@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet 202.419.4512 Executive Summary: The rate of growth in penetration of high-speed internet at home has slowed and could slow further after several years of rapid growth. […]
Introduction Beyond understanding the conditions of internet access inside the home, it is important to understand how the internet and other communication technologies fit into teens’ external environments and increasingly complex lives. For most teenagers, technology plays a crucial role in their everyday lives, and the internet is the backbone of their overall media milieu. […]
Female Sources in the News–by Outlet Outlet Newspapers Net. Even. PBS NewsHour Net. Morn. Cable Internet Total Female Source # 0 Count 3871 489 228 537 2686 1214 9025 % 58.7% 72.6% 82.9% 65.8% 81.5% 63.8% 66.6% 1 Count 1437 108 30 178 502 400 2655 % 21.8% 16.0% 10.9% […]
Large majorities of Muslims in most predominantly Muslim countries surveyed think that it is very important that Islam play a more important and influential role in the world than that religion now does. In Morocco, 84% of Muslims subscribe to this view, as do 73% in Jordan, 70% in Pakistan and 64% in Indonesia. Even […]