Online Shopping: Convenient but Risky
Two-thirds (66%) of online Americans have purchased a product online, but many worry about the safety of financial and personal data.
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Media Narrative Vaults Obama into Frontrunner Slot
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton dominated coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign last week, but in very different ways. While Obama got a big bounce from primary wins, the Clinton campaign was besieged by bad news. Meanwhile, John McCain inched closer to inevitability.
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IRS Restrictions on Political Intervention and Lobbying
Download a printable PDF of the full report (23 pgs.) Go back to the introduction « Go back to the previous section 5. What political activities are prohibited under the Internal Revenue Code? 6. Must religious organizations restrict their discussion of issues during election campaign periods? 7. When would an issue discussion violate the political […]
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Part 1. Trends in Online Shopping
Introduction Americans are shoppers. On the typical day, Americans spend an average of 24 minutes purchasing goods and services – a figure that doesn’t include any time spent traveling to a place to shop.[2. numoffset=”2″ American Time Use Survey, available online at: http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/household.htm.] This is more than people spend relaxing and thinking (19 minutes per […]
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Talk Hosts Pounce as Clinton Appears to Stumble
All year long, Hillary Clinton has dominated the campaign conversation on the talk airwaves. And last week, signs that the Democratic battle for president might be tightening had many hosts talking up the idea of a Clinton swoon. Plus, Michael Savage on steroids. (Talking about them, not taking them.)
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Teens’ online activities and gadgets
Introduction Fully 93% of teens use the internet, and teen use of the internet has intensified in recent years. In 2006, 89% of teens accessed the internet from home. This is fairly consistent with our survey data from 2000 and 2004, which showed that a similar percentage of teens accessing the internet from home. Home […]
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Teens creating content
Introduction In our 2005 report, “Teen Content Creators and Consumers,” we noted an important and emerging trend: teenagers were helping to lead the then-ascendant movement into the Web 2.0 era of participatory media. Online teens were utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet—creating and sharing their own media creations—at levels far higher than adults. At […]
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Terrorism, Tight Credit, and Tragedies Emerge in the News in Third Quarter
The Iraq policy debate re-emerged as the No. 1 story, replacing the campaign, in the third quarter, according to a detailed analysis of PEJ’s News Coverage Index. But terror fears, a troubled economy, and man-made disasters also grabbed the media’s attention. So too, did the three top newsmakers who ran afoul of the law.
