Word: kohut
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...Mooreists don't. And yet, these extremist clumps throw disproportionate weight in the public square. Dick Cheney appears on Limbaugh's show; Moore appears in Jimmy Carter's box at the Democratic Convention. But even if you generously double their numbers--as some experts like Andrew Kohut of the Pew poll do--that leaves 70% of the public unaccounted for. What about the rest...
...This is a very different political climate than it was even a year ago," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which released a study showing the country more polarized than it has been since 1994, when angry voters put the Republicans in control of Congress. This hardening of attitudes also helps explain why the swing voter, so sought after during the 1990s, is getting less attention. The name of the game for both parties is getting their core voters to the polls. Turnout increases last week were especially dramatic in areas President...
...swim classes. Polls in the weeks after 9/11 found far more women than men reporting that they were depressed, losing sleep and fearful from the news coverage they had watched. "All the polls showed women feeling much more personally vulnerable, much more personally threatened," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "I don't want to play to some stereotypes, but it just comes screaming out of all of the data." One result was that women's support for defense spending--even for expensive, untried concepts like a missile-defense system--shot...
...smart New York Times story earlier this week about how web users seem to be gravitating to the on-line versions of the best-known national news organizations, Andrew Kohut, the head of the Pew Research Center in Washington was quoted as saying: "Online, people tell us they go to look for what they are interested in, which tends to narrow people's horizons, not expand them...
...they go to look for what they're interested in.This is the now familiar lament of old media when it comes to online news. It's the idea that people might actually be able to choose what news they read or watch. Mr. Kohut, Felicity Barringer writes, "also said that viewing news on the Web took away one of the most important elements of news consumption in the old media, which is browsing." Now, let's forget for the moment that surfing is an exponentially more powerful version of browsing, and focus instead on Andrew's Lament...