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...Dole's attacks resonate beyond the party faithful, in all senses of the word. In a TIME poll conducted at the end of last week by Yankelovich Partners, Inc., 77% of those questioned said that they were very concerned or fairly concerned about violence in the media; 70% said the same about media representations of sex. With numbers like those, it's a safe bet that Campaign '96 will also be Murphy Brown II, a further chapter of the conservative assault on Hollywood that Quayle launched...
Pick just about any major institution, and chances are Americans are scrambling to find a more agreeable substitute. The Yankelovich Monitor, an annual survey of 4,000 Americans based on interviews conducted in their homes, shows a steep erosion of trust in traditional authority. Among the fallen: doctors, religious leaders, big companies, schools and especially the Federal Government. What makes people in the survey ``very angry,'' said 55% of them in 1994, up from 44% the previous year, is people in positions of power who ``say one thing and do another...
...distrust of authority cuts across almost all aspects of American life, including the spiritual realm. Whereas religious leaders are enjoying a modest comeback in credibility, according to the Yankelovich Monitor, Americans want to keep their own counsel. ``We're finding that people are uncertain about things, but they've got their own moral tool kits,'' says Alan Wolfe, chairman of the sociology department at Boston University. ``So you can say authority has broken down, but you can also say that people have a great opportunity to make up their own understanding of the world. A lot of people are very...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 11-12 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus/minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 600 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 5 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 4%. "Not sures" omitted...