… For all the recent debate about what responsibility the media bears for Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party’s nomination race, there hasn’t been a lot of evidence presented on how the media has actually covered the campaign. So I scoured through more than nine months of […] Read more »
Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think
Given the complexities of the modern world, we all have to rely on expert opinion. … And to find out what the experts think, we typically rely on the news media. This creates a challenge for journalists: There are many issues on which a large majority of experts agree but […] Read more »
How media coverage shapes presidential polling more than we think
Pundits tell us all the time that media coverage is driving the current Presidential primary, that Donald Trump and other outsider candidates are only doing well because they attract so much attention from the press. But in an era when people can choose their media sources to match what they […] Read more »
8th Annual Dubious Polling Awards: 2015’s Worst in Media Polling
10. “The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand Is Doing” Award … 9 . “Leading the Witness” Award … 8. “The Pollyanna” Award … CONT. David W. Moore, iMediaEthics Read more »
Three Theories Of Donald Trump’s Rise
… As far as I can tell, there are three main theories about the rise of Trump; respectively, they pin the credit (or blame) for Trump on Republican voters, Republican elites and the news media. Each theory interprets his polls differently and comes to different conclusions about how much staying […] Read more »
Negative news about Muslims fuels public policy support against them
News stories depicting Muslims as terrorists have fueled racism and anger among many non-Muslim Americans, who support civil restrictions and military action in Muslim countries, according to a new University of Michigan study. CONT. University of Michigan Read more »