Study: News Focusing on Campaign Issues
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In an about-face from four years ago, network evening news programs are concentrating more on substantive presidential campaign issues than the horse race, a think tank reported.
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For months, public opinion polls in the United States have suggested that the major issues in this year&#39;s presidential campaign are Iraq, the war on terror, jobs, and health care.
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Do U.S. voters really care that George W. Bush's favorite gun is the Winchester his father gave him, or that John Kerry likes fishing for blues and stripers? Millions might, which means candidates will keep talking to niche publications like Field & Stream.
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The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The second wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,821 people who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.
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TechWeb - The daily news digest includes photos, reviews, links to ads, and Web sites and charts showing candidates' popularity on social networking sites.
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Reporters are using instant messages and the Twitter service to pump out details from the campaign trail.
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Local TV stations have nearly given up covering local political races and issues, researchers will report Tuesday. In the month leading up to last Election Day, just 8% of the local evening newscasts in 11 of the nation's largest TV markets devoted time to local races and issues, researchers say.
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As television viewers paid increasing attention this year to the presidential race, they often sought out more politically opinionated talk, at least on cable.
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Facts and figures on spending in the presidential race:
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Description: Senior news analyst NPR&#39;s Daniel Schorr says that this presidential campaign is not dominated by important issues of the day, but instead has degenerated into a gossipy back-and-forth debate about the Vietnam War.
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A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that user-generated news sites cover markedly different topics from mainstream news sites.
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In the race for best media coverage of Election Day, the winners were television Web sites, according to a report.
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Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.
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A new website uses a well-designed Q&A format to help voters find the presidential candidate best aligned with their beliefs. It's part of a new wave of web technologies trying to focus on issues, not hairstyles.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - The presidential election is 14 months away and with as many as 17 candidates now running, U.S. television and radio broadcasters are elated at the prospect of billions more in advertising dollars.
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A recent decline in U.S. news  coverage from Iraq coincides with improved public opinion about  the war just as the 2008 presidential campaign heads to an  early showdown, a study released on Wednesday said.
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While there has been more Internet advertising activity in this year's presidential race than in the past, the money spent on Web ads still pales in comparison to that allocated for TV commercials, the first-ever study of online political ads found.