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What Happens to Your Local News Between 6 and 11? By Forrest Carr The good news is we news directors were right. That’s also the bad news. When the Project for Excellence in Journalism set out last year to study the effect of quality on ratings, it measured the most popular time slot in 20 […]
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,091 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period January 12-16, 2000. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to […]
Bottom Line Attitudes: High Favorability Scores Abound In general, the agencies receive fairly high marks from the constituent groups. Of the five agencies included in the survey, the Food and Drug Administration comes out on top: Over 80% of medical professionals, business regulatory officers, health and medicine advocates, and the chronically ill have a favorable […]
By Danielle Parker and Debra Leavitt Miami is supposed to be the worst TV town in the country. WSVN is so notorious that its tapes are used in journalism schools as an example of the grotesque in local news. Things change. Miami’s four major television stations have developed a culture of high enterprise, good sourcing, […]
Philadelphia—(February 29, 2000)–The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that a $5.9 million grant has been made to create a research center that will explore the impact of the Internet on American society. Unlike other research centers that focus on e-commerce and other business applications on the Web, Pew’s Internet and American Life Project will study […]
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 […]
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,091 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period January 12-16, 2000. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to […]
The study reveals some clear differences in the way candidates were covered, not so much positively or negatively, but the nature of the coverage, what got covered and who controlled the coverage. Bill Bradley If the former Senator from New Jersey wanted to be the candidate of big ideas, he did not succeed in doing […]
The news media offered the American public a fine education in campaign tactics but told them little about matters that actually will affect them as citizens in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.
Introduction and Summary The outcome of the New Hampshire primary has changed candidate support patterns that last year seemed all but cast in stone. Al Gore has drawn into a statistical dead-heat with George W. Bush in a general-election ballot test, largely because core Democrats are rallying behind the vice president. At the same time, […]