Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Section 1: Americans want a privacy guarantee Privacy has emerged as a central policy concern about the Internet as more Americans go online every day – and recent weeks have brought a ceaseless number of new allegations about privacy violations by Internet companies. In the past three months, a series of events have heightened sensitivities. […]
Far More Republicans Satisfied Than in ’96 While Americans are more indifferent to the presidential election than at this stage in the campaigns of 1992 or 1996, they also are more satisfied with their choice of candidates. Indeed, more than six-in-ten (62%) express satisfaction with the candidates, far more than at a comparable point in […]
AOL.comCNN/AllPolitics.comGO.comMSN.comMSNBC.comNational Review OnlineNetscape.comNewYorkTimes.comPathfinder/Time.comSalon.comWashingtonPost.comYahoo.com AOL.com America Online has become the biggest Internet service provider in the country largely on the strength of a reputation as a friendly, easy-to-use service. Unfortunately, that attitude doesn’t extend to the political news section of its web site. AOL’s politics news page is quite difficult to find. From www.aol.com, one must […]
Fewer Turn To Broadcast TV and Papers While television continues to be the principal source of campaign news for a large majority of Americans, the percentage of people relying on either network (24%) or local television (25%) to keep up with the campaign has fallen over the past four years (down from 39% and 34%, […]
DESIGN OF THE PRESS SAMPLES Three samples were drawn for the press portion of this survey: a national news media sample, a local news media sample and an Internet sample. Both the national and local samples were divided into two groups: print and television (which includes television and radio). For the national sample, the print […]
The Talking Points The day after the Lewinsky story broke, news organizations learned that on Jan. 14 Monica Lewinsky had handed Linda Tripp a three-page document that began “Points to make in an affidavit.” The memo, which was dubbed the “talking points” in Newsweek’s America on-line report, bedeviled news organizations for months though it scarcely […]
With Internet use skyrocketing in virtually every major demographic group, more than one-third of Americans (36%) are now going online from work or home. What’s more, those who go online have a large appetite for news and information and are turning to the Internet as yet another news source. The Internet is quickly becoming a […]