A scientifically questionable method of jamming opinion polls together could leave Ohio Gov. John Kasich on the sidelines of the first GOP presidential debate in his own state. While many already have taken issue with Fox News’ decision — backed by the national Republican Party — to take only the […] Read more »
Rick Santorum Denounces Fox News Curbs on Debate
… A day after Fox News announced that its Republican presidential primary debate in August would include only the 10 candidates polling the highest in national surveys, Rick Santorum denounced the criteria on Thursday. … “The idea that a national poll has any relationship to the viability of a candidate […] Read more »
Poll Position: Fox News rules will limit the field in first GOP presidential debate
Fox News, which is hosting the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign, will require participants to place in the top 10 in an average of the five most recent national polls in the run-up to the event, according to details obtained by The Washington Post Thursday. CONT. Matea Gold, […] Read more »
Facebook Study Disputes Theory of Political Polarization Among Users
For years, political scientists and other social theorists have fretted about the Internet’s potential to flatten and polarize democratic discourse. Because so much information now comes through digital engines shaped by our own preferences — Facebook, Google and others suggest content based on what consumers previously enjoyed — scholars have […] Read more »
State of the News Media 2015
Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center’s analysis of comScore data. CONT. Amy Mitchell, Pew Read more »
What the Public Knows — In Pictures, Words, Maps and Graphs
The latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey finds that, nearly half a century after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., an overwhelming majority of Americans (91%) are able to identify the civil rights leader from his picture. CONT. Pew Read more »