There is a “market failure” in the local news business, a new report suggests, because “even though Americans tend to view local news as a community asset, most are not personally helping to keep it viable.” The report by the Knight Foundation and Gallup comes with both encouraging and discouraging […] Read more »
Politics with Amy Walter: The Impeachment Will be Televised
This week marked a shift in the ongoing impeachment inquiry as the first round of televised testimony began on Wednesday. Marie Yovanovitch, the well-respected former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until May of this year became the third televised testimony on Friday. Yovanovitch believes she was removed from her post by […] Read more »
State of the Facts Poll
Despite fundamental disagreements about which sources of information to trust, Americans overwhelmingly agree on what facts should be: accurate, transparent and based in data, according to a new national poll by USAFacts and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The 2019 State of the Facts Poll examines Americans’ […] Read more »
Just How Far Will Republicans Go for Trump?
The House’s public impeachment hearings will test whether Donald Trump was right when he declared that his political support is so rock-solid that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequence—and what it means for a bitterly divided nation if he was. Even some Republican political professionals privately acknowledge […] Read more »
Trump’s Impeachment and Opinion Formation in the Digital Age
As the impeachment process is speeding forward in a highly polarized Washington D.C., the assumption is that the mass media will exert tremendous political and societal influence on the proceedings. The full impact of the media, however, remains an open question given longstanding political science research as well as the […] Read more »
Local News Media Considered Less Biased Than National News
Research from Gallup earlier this year found that although a majority of Americans continue to mistrust the media in general, they trust local news sources far more than national sources. Gallup’s latest polling on the subject reinforces this finding that the public perceives less ideological bias in local news than […] Read more »