About as many Americans say the news media have been too tough on Donald Trump (35%) as say the news media have not been tough enough (34%), amid the president’s public battle with the media. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Americans are burning down the house
Americans once had a shared commitment to the traditional liberal democratic values: individual liberties, human rights, tolerance of dissent, free and fair elections, a free press, due process and separation of powers. Or more concisely: liberty and justice for all. Slowly but surely, we have been abandoning these shared values […] Read more »
Are Americans moved by Trump’s media-as-enemy war cry? The opposite may be true.
Don’t take that victory lap just yet, Mr. President. At first glance, a new report from Pew Research looks devastating for President Trump’s favorite punching bag, the nation’s news media. One might think that the message Trump has been hammering home is really getting through. After all, Pew’s polling clearly […] Read more »
Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions
Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation’s leading institutions – including the news media, colleges and universities and churches and religious organizations – and in some cases, the gap in these views is significantly wider today than it was just a year […] Read more »
Despite Attacks on the Press, Public Supports Watchdog Role
The news media has faced a lot of criticism this year, particularly from the White House and conservative opinion leaders. But the press’s role as a watchdog is still very popular with nearly everyone in the United States, with one noteworthy exception — Republicans. CONT. Dante Chinni & Sally Bronston, […] Read more »
Computational Campaign Coverage
… Within the “Computational Campaign Coverage” research project, researchers teamed up with the German-based software company AX Semantics to develop automated news based on forecasting data for the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The data was provided by the PollyVote research project, which also hosted the platform for the publication of […] Read more »