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Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart and Dole counterpart Nelson Warfield debated the debate on ABC's Good Morning America. NBC analyst Tim Russert and ABC's Jeff Greenfield weighed in on Don Imus' radio show. In a CBS poll, 50% of the respondents said they thought Clinton was the winner, vs. 28% for Dole. Rush Limbaugh replayed Clinton's response on the issue of presidential pardons and exclaimed, "Now what does that mean?" USA Today tracked the minute-by-minute responses of 148 voters in St. Louis, Missouri, and reported that they felt most favorable about Clinton when he praised health...
...involved in their own lives, or too bored by the Middle East situation, or maybe just too overwhelmed by all the choices available. Newspaper readership is in steady decline. That's partly because most people now get their news primarily from TV: 59% according to a TIME/CNN poll, vs. 23% from newspapers. But the audience for network news is also dropping. Fifteen years ago, the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and ABC's World News Tonight together were watched in 41.2% of all American TV homes. Last season that combined audience sank to an all-time...
...democratic impulse in news is also reflected in the current vogue for "public" or "civic" journalism. Under this philosophy, pioneered by newspapers like the Wichita Eagle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, the news outlet seeks to "reconnect" with its community by taking polls, sponsoring issue forums and seeking solutions to neighborhood problems. For this year's political races in North Carolina, for example, several of the state's newspapers and TV stations banded together to poll voters on what issues they wanted to see addressed, and then focused coverage on those issues. The editors involved argue that this approach has made...
...adds, "The less Americans care about public life, the less they will be interested in journalism of any form." Fallows and others argue, moreover, that today's reporters--often well-paid, well-connected Washington insiders--are simply not in touch with the concerns of ordinary people. A TIME/CNN poll found that negative feelings about the press are indeed widespread: 75% of the respondents agreed that the news media is "sensationalistic"; 63% found it "too negative"; and 73% said they are "skeptical about the accuracy" of the news they're getting. (That last figure, however, is less than...
Harvard now boasts a number 12 national ranking, which equals the ranking of the Harvard women's team. The team moved up eight places from number 20 after Tuesday's NCAA poll was released...