In late June, President Donald Trump officially suspended his administration’s policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their families as they crossed the US-Mexico border. … Though the policy has received bipartisan blowback, almost one-third of voters — mainly Republicans and/or Trump voters — support it. Who exactly are these […] Read more »
More Republicans in the news? That’s not media bias
It’s difficult to measure media bias. Lawrey/shutterstock.com Dominik Stecula, University of Pennsylvania A July 20 report, analyzing news content from The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that Republican politicians get roughly 2.5 times as many mentions as Democrats. The report, produced by a progressive nonprofit Media Matters, […] Read more »
Americans wary of Trump tariffs’ impact, but support plan to aid farmers
After a week in which President Trump touted strong economic growth, half of Americans say he is doing a good job on the economy. His trade policies in particular do not find overall positive reviews beyond Republicans. CONT. CBS News Read more »
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: Americans Don’t Think Trump Is Tough Enough On Russia
Americans don’t think President Trump has been tough enough on Russia, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted after Trump’s summit in Helsinki last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nearly two-thirds said so, and it wasn’t just Democrats. Almost half of Republicans surveyed (47 percent) also said Trump […] Read more »
Why Do People Share Fake News? A Sociotechnical Model of Media Effects
… This paper uses active audience approaches to media consumption to investigate and critique the phenomenon known as “fake news.” … Regardless of what “fake news” actually means, it is typically tied up with anxieties about the democratic ramifications of the shift from consuming news from broadcast television and newspapers […] Read more »
Why evangelical voters support Trump’s policy on refugees — even though evangelical leaders object
… We might expect that evangelical leaders’ Bible-based arguments would lead rank-and-file evangelicals to welcome refugees. That’s not what’s happened. Instead, white evangelicals have supported President Trump’s closed-door policies wholeheartedly. … Why are lay evangelicals broadly opposed to allowing refugees into the country, defying their leaders? My research shows their […] Read more »