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Slowly but surely, Americans' attitudes towards gays and lesbians are changing. In October 1989, a Gallup poll reported that more Americans agreed than disagreed with the statement that homosexual relations between consenting adults should be legal. Fully 71 percent agreed with the proposition that gays should not be discriminated against in employment--the highest level in years. In the middle of Bisexual Gay Lesbian Awareness Day (BLAD) week--a period intended to raise awareness of the presence of gays and lesbians on campus--we should all be glad that America is on the road to becoming a more tolerant...
...American people," the Gallup poll revealed that by a two to one margin, a majority of Americans believe that the armed forces should admit gays and lesbians...
...project wildly conflicting results. One survey puts Ortega 20 points ahead of Chamorro; another gives Chamorro almost exactly the same lead. The discrepancy confirms a suspicion that Nicaraguans, unused to honest elections and chary of speaking their minds to strangers, say whatever they think a pollster wants to hear. Gallup would...
...polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired the Gallup organization to get to the truth. Gallup reassuringly reported in 1985 that no credibility crisis existed...
More recently, however, the news from Gallup has not been so encouraging. In a report published last November, the 16 news organizations rated in the survey had collectively lost 9 percentage points from their believability. By at least one standard, journalism was not doing so badly: among individuals and institutions rated, only Pope John Paul II was found to be more believable than the media. When the poll was narrowed to specific news organizations and journalists (including the Wall Street Journal, Cable News Network, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Ted Koppel), several actually outscored the Pope -- and left President Bush...