… What is the nature of news on YouTube? … The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examined 15 months’ worth of the most popular news videos on the site. … The data reveal that a complex, symbiotic relationship has developed between citizens and news organizations on YouTube, […] Read more »
Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low
Americans’ confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in […] Read more »
Why is ‘issue coverage’ so boring—and often wrong?
… When pollsters—yes, pollsters—start sounding like high-minded press critics, it’s a sign that horse-race hysteria has grown to absurd levels. With the election still four months away, we are hooked up to ephemeral data bursts with a shelf life of four hours. [cont.] Walter Shapiro, Columbia Journalism Review Read more »
How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself
… Many people have tried to define what media bias is, and attempted to measure it, but I want to try to answer a different question here: not how we can decide if the news is biased, but how each of us actually does decide — and what it means […] Read more »