More than half of Americans surveyed say NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was not being truthful when he said no one in the league office, prior to its release Monday, saw the video of Ray Rice punching and knocking unconscious his then-fiancee inside a casino elevator. Opinion is also mixed on […] Read more »
How Your Party and Sports Line Up
As midterms approach, a quick political question: How closely did you follow the story this summer of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart’s car striking and killing a competitor at a dirt-racing track? If it’s been a big topic for you, there’s a good chance you vote Republican. If you have spent […] Read more »
Business and Industry Sector Images Continue to Improve
Americans’ views of 24 business and industry sectors continue to grow more positive after falling precipitously in 2008 during the Great Recession. The average net-positive rating of the 24 sectors is now +18, up from -1 in 2008, and the highest since 2003. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
America’s cultural segregation fault lines
… We don’t live in America anymore. We live in thousands of Americas, many no farther away than our computer screens and the Internet. These are self-identified Americas. … The fact that we have different interests, different perspectives, is certainly not new, nor is the fact that we band together, […] Read more »
Consumers Spending More, Just Not on Things They Want
Slightly less than half of all Americans (45%) report spending more than they did a year ago, while 18% report spending less. A closer look at these numbers reveals Americans’ increased spending is on household essentials, such as groceries, gasoline, utilities, and healthcare, rather than on discretionary purchases. CONT. John […] Read more »
Participant Index Seeks to Determine Why One Film Spurs Activism, While Others Falter
… For the last year Participant, an activist entertainment company that delivers movies with a message, has been quietly working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to answer a question vexing those who would […] Read more »