Since former Vice President Joe Biden officially announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democrat ticket, the big issue has ceased to be healthcare coverage or tax rates or childcare or the environment. It isn’t even about trust or stature or even charisma. The watchword has been “electability.” CONT. On the […] Read more »
How Cable News And The Polls Reacted To 2020 Campaign Announcements
Does an increase in attention from the media, like we’ve generally seen this cycle surrounding a presidential hopeful’s campaign launch, correspond with a boost in a candidate’s popularity in the polls? At FiveThirtyEight, we’ve looked at how much kickoff coverage candidates have gotten on the big three cable TV news […] Read more »
How actual news consumers grapple with fake news and (sometimes) tune out
“Residents cycle between verifying information and disengaging from news to relieve stress.” In the International Journal for Communication, Temple University’s Andrea Wenzel looks at how consumers — in 13 focus groups across cities in California, Indiana, Kentucky, and New York — “navigate vast quantities of often conflicting information and misinformation […] Read more »
World Sees Media as a Little More Free
Amid rising concerns about the freedom of the press across much of the world this World Press Freedom Day, the world in general is more likely to see the media as having a lot of freedom than it was a few years ago. CONT. Julie Ray, Gallup Read more »
ABA Civic Literacy Survey reveals knowledge gaps
The ABA celebrated Law Day May 1 with the release of a new national Survey of Civic Literacy and other programs related to the 2019 Law Day theme of “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society.” … According to the national poll, less than half of the U.S. public knows that […] Read more »
Studying how law and order issues are framed has helped to uncover 2016’s shy Trump voters
Racial tensions surged back onto the American political agenda during the 2016 election. Following numerous mass protests and sporadic riots sparked by the deaths of people of color at the hands of police officers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took opposite positions on the “law and order” issue. Clinton expressed […] Read more »