OK, let’s talk early polls in presidential elections. What exactly do they tell us? They tell us what people are hearing, and sometimes that will matter. While nomination surveys can’t successfully predict what will happen in next year’s primaries and caucuses, let alone the general election next November, they can […] Read more »
Fact-Checking Can Help You Learn About Politics (True!)
Fact-checks of politicians’ statements have become increasingly prominent in media coverage of American politics. With dedicated fact-checkers like PolitiFact and recurring features in newspapers like The New York Times and news agencies like The Associated Press, more journalists are trying to assess the accuracy of claims made by public figures […] Read more »
The ‘newsless’ myth: How Millennials consume the news
Many people believe that America’s first digital generation is “newsless.” Conventional wisdom dictates that one of the many reasons for print newspapers decline is due to low readership rates among Millennials, and that very few of them read the news at all. To complicate the picture further, it’s widely viewed […] Read more »
Americans, Japanese: Mutual Respect 70 Years After the End of WW II
Adversaries in World War II, fierce economic competitors in the 1980s and early 1990s, Americans and Japanese nonetheless share a deep mutual respect. About two-thirds of Americans trust Japan a great deal or a fair amount and three-quarters of Japanese say they trust the United States, according to a new […] Read more »
CNN Cherry Picks Poll Results Making It Appear Clinton Hurt by Emails
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, CNN announced the results of a new poll, showing “Clinton still tops in 2016.” It was so positive for the former secretary of state that the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza called it “the best news Hillary Clinton has had in weeks.” … Two days earlier, […] Read more »
Why Don’t the Clintons and the Press Get Along?
… With the media feeding frenzy the past two weeks over Hillary Clinton maintaining a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state, the 1990s dysfunctional marriage between the Clintons and the DC press has come roaring back—no lessons learned or maturity built up on either side since Bill […] Read more »