Analysis: Our Studies, Commentaries and Backgrounders
This section, Analysis, is the complete archive of all the research studies, commentaries, background reports, articles, or speeches PEJ has published. They are listed below in chronological order, but our archive is also searchable. Use the menus on the left to filter the contents and find exactly what you want.
| | July 10, 2002 |
The ties between Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., now pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, were reported back on April 5, 2004, during Obama’s Illinois Senate race. On that day, the Chicago Sun-Times printed a story that, in various forms and media outl ... |
| | May 23, 2002 | The news Americans see on network television has softened considerably since 2001l, to the point that it looks more like it did before the terrorist attacks than immediately after.
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| | March 18, 2002, Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, The Los Angeles Times | | For the sake of argument, put the public interest aside. Forget that broadcast airwaves are public property. Strictly in economic terms, the Walt Disney Co. got lucky when it failed to woo David Letterman to join ABC. The public nature of the Letterman embarrassment has granted Disney something rare ... |
| | March 6, 2002, Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, The Washington Post | What's left of broadcast television journalism is at stake now, many in the business believe, in the war within the Disney Co. over whether to replace "Nightline" with the late-night comedy of David Letterman. The people who run Disney seem intent on displacing "Nightline" ... |
| | January 29, 2002, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The New York Times | Four months into the war, a review of news coverage reveals that over time Americans are getting fewer facts and more opinion -- a narrow range of opinion, at that -- from newspapers, magazines and television. At the same time, polls show the press losing a measure of the respect it had gained in ... |
| | January 28, 2002 | Over time the press is inching back toward pre-September 11th norms of behavior.
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| | November 19, 2001 | The war on terrorism has caused a colossal shift in the news people see on network television.
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| | November 1, 2001 | Local newsrooms beset by sponsor interference, budget cuts, layoffs, and added programming.
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| | May 1, 2001, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The New York Times | A review of the early press coverage of George W. Bush's administration reveals some unexpected and troubling features of contemporary political journalism: even the most serious newspapers in the country have pulled back dramatically on covering the presidency. |
| | April 30, 2001 | Did George W. Bush really get an easier ride from the media in his first months in office?
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