Low marks: the public takes a jaundiced view of the nation's news media, a...

American Journalism Review;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......fact that 61 percent of Americans...the American news media is a widespread...that only 39 percent agreed with the statement that the news media try to report...question, 77 percent agreed that the news media should act as...

How public rates the news media. (latest Gallup poll)

U.S. News & World Report;  October 13, 1986 ;     454 words ...HOW PUBLIC RATES THE NEWS MEDIA The American public thinks the news media may be giving terrorists...Angeles-based media company, 51 percent said the press gives too...likely would occur even if the news media did not cover them so extensively...threats of prosecution, yet 72 ...

Survey: Public support of news media tumbling in America

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  July 4, 1999 ;     511 words ......fed up with the news media. A majority, 53 percent, of those questioned...indicates "the news media is in deep trouble...public." Only 65 percent said newspapers...down from 80 percent in the 1997 survey...also said the news media should not be...

Leading in a different language: will women change the news media?...

Women in Action;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Today, women are 41 percent of working journalists; they were 43 percent in 1995. For all women...women's employment in the news media was conducted in 1995...Japan women are only eight percent of media employees; in India and Malawi they are 12 percent; and in Argentina and ...

The essential role for news media.

Phi Kappa Phi Forum;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......percent supported the war. Among those with two, 78 percent supported it. Among those with three, 86 percent backed it. By contrast, less than a quarter of those...published July 1, 2003, by the Associated Press, only 39 percent of those polled believed that the U.S. administration...October 2003 ...

Latinos' Choices in News Media Are Shaping Their Views of Their...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......languages while only 6 percent of likely voters...English-language news media influences the views...of Latinos -- 78 percent of the population...Spanish-language news media are very important...began compared to 44 percent of the foreign born. Choices in news ...

Measuring the news media's effectiveness: a new annual report locates...

Nieman Reports;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The news media in 2004 are a study in contradiction. Conglomeration...adds up to a time of peril and promise for the news media. And in the decade ahead, we are likely to find...Journalism set out to produce The State of the News Media 2004, which will become an annual report. As ...

New study paints discouraging picture for most news media outlets.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  March 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ......CHICAGO _ The audience for most news media outlets is either shrinking...The study, The State of the News Media 2004, examined the newspaper...circulation has declined 11 percent since 1990, while network...newscast ratings are down 34 percent over the last decade. Despite...48 ...

The Economist effect: Not all news media are dumbing it down; Time...

The Christian Science Monitor;  September 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......With all the tumult in the news media today - the decline of the...at all shows how much the news media are changing. For years the...base to drop by as much as 25 percent. Why the big changes? This...small group of coverage-rich news media will get richer while the...

Relations with News Media: Perceptions of Healthcare Executives.

Hospital Topics;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......relationships with the news media. These perceptions...response rate was 17.3 percent (N = 173). Respondents...increase; only 2.4 percent reported a decrease...of Working with News Media (%) Difficulty...Conversely, 62.4 percent perceived radio...professionalism of the ...

Public support wanes, some journalists press on; 'despite the low esteem...

Nieman Reports;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......institutions. Last year only 28 percent of those interviewed said they had...the criminal justice system (26 percent), and better than the scores for organized labor (24 percent), Congress and big business (each at 22 percent) and, lowest of all, HMO's (18 percent). In 1985, the old ...

Media study finds fewer audience for US news media

Xinhua News Agency;  March 16, 2004 ;     272 words ......finds fewer audience for US news media LOS ANGELES, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The audience for most US news media outlets is either shrinking...circulation has declined 11 percent since 1990 and network evening news ratings are down 34 percent over the last decade. Despite...news sources ...

If the news is so bad, why are presidential polls so high? Presidents, the...

Presidential Studies Quarterly;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......attacked him, and the news media, never easy on the administration...president. Figure 1 traces the percentage of news stories about...than 1998 by nearly 10 percent. Not surprisingly, nearly 22 percent of all news stories in...scandal stories, only 47 percent of the ...

PSEA President Asks News Media to Use Sensitivity in Covering Red Lion...

PR Newswire;  April 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......president of PSEA, today issued an open letter to all news media covering the scheduled re-opening of schools in the Red...letter follows: April 28, 2003 To Representatives of News Media Organizations: Journalists face a profound challenge...organizations review the guidelines produced by the ...

Democrats play the blame game: Beyer's loss laid on Wilder news media, GOP...

The Washington Times;  November 6, 1997 ;     586 words ......from black voters. Exit polls show Mr. Beyer took 80 percent of the black vote. That's about what he hoped for...Wilder's silence affected the outcome. Still, 80 percent is significantly less of the black vote than that...Democratic candidates for governor. Mr. Wilder claimed 98 percent in 1989, Gerald ...