How the media covered Obamacare vs. Typhoon Haiyan

Amazing graphic from Pew Research: Advocates (even including myself, I'm embarrassed to say now) have in the past blamed the media for not rasing the global warming question — repeat, question — when it comes to vast storm disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan. Look at that graphic and you realize that in the American mediaContinue reading “How the media covered Obamacare vs. Typhoon Haiyan”

Millennials: No newspapers, please. TV news? Meh.

Newspapers are still with us, for a few more years. And, blessedly newspapers such as The Guardian have made free Internet access central to their mission (as discussed enthusiastly last week in The New Yorker). So the newspaper industry staggers on — for a while. But this past weeked Andy Kohut for Pew Research notContinue reading “Millennials: No newspapers, please. TV news? Meh.”

Teens turn against blogging: more adults like it now

When I grow up, I want to work for the Pew Research Center. They study all the interesting questions, it seems, and all their centers have really long and impressive names, such as the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, the Pew Global Attitudes Project, and many others. Their latest publication (unless a new oneContinue reading “Teens turn against blogging: more adults like it now”