Many more Americans trust news on the internet than did so in 1998, when only a small fraction of Americans got their news this way. Currently, 40% of Americans say they trust online news, up from 25% in 1998, the last time Gallup measured opinions on the subject. Since 1998, […] Read more »
I’m not happy with it’: Trump hits Fox News over poll results
President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed his preferred news network over recent unfavorable poll results, saying: “There’s something going on at Fox [News], I’ll tell you right now. And I’m not happy with it.” Trump’s comments to reporters in New Jersey were in response to a question about the network’s […] Read more »
Behind Nate Silver’s war with The New York Times
Nate Silver made his name as The New York Times’ data guru, creating the methodology that predicted Barack Obama’s reelection. Now, Silver’s method seems to be to stir up trouble for the Times. … Silver’s persistent criticism of the Times, stretching back to the last presidential election, has long struck […] Read more »
Can presidential misinformation on climate change be corrected? Evidence from Internet and phone experiments
Can presidential misinformation affect political knowledge and policy views of the mass public, even when that misinformation is followed by a fact-check? We present results from two experiments, conducted online and over the telephone, in which respondents were presented with Trump misstatements on climate change. While Trump’s misstatements on their […] Read more »
When It Comes to Local News Mergers, Bias Top Concern
In recent years, efforts to find a sustainable business model for local news coverage in the U.S. have resulted in the acquisition of local news organizations in different markets by large, national companies. Last week’s announcement of a merger between Gannett and Gatehouse media, which would consolidate ownership of more […] Read more »
It’s the mainstream anti-immigration rhetoric, not the extreme, that’s shaping American politics
… In an interview on NPR, the administration’s immigration chief, Ken Cuccinelli, offered a reworking of the poem that sits at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public […] Read more »