Trust in presidency, Congress, media at all-time lows
Americans are losing faith in U.S. institutions across the board, though they don’t agree on what is least trustworthy. The American public’s faith in U.S….
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Ratings show Fox News viewers tuning out Jan. 6 hearings
Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur in daytime hours and a striking number of the network’s viewers have…
Clarence Thomas signals interest in making it easier to sue media
Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday expressed a desire to revisit a landmark 1964 ruling that makes it relatively difficult to bring successful lawsuits against media…
USA Today removes 23 articles, says reporter fabricated sources
USA Today has unpublished 23 articles written by a journalist at the outlet who the company said fabricated sources and other facts in those reports….
A fresh Reuters Institute report detects an epidemic of news avoidance
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report, released Tuesday evening, with its survey of more than 93,000 readers in 46 countries, lays out a trio of…
MBFC Data Used in Research Study: Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation
Matthew T. Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet, Robert M. Bond & Joseph H. Tien Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 9832 (2022) Cite this article Metricsdetails Abstract Understanding how different…
Does Media Exposure Influence an Individual’s Risk of Radicalization?
Summary: Exposure to radicalized content online, both active and passive, was associated with a more meaningful relationship with radicalization. Source: Wiley A recent analysis in Campbell Systematic Reviews examined…
For its must-read coronavirus coverage, The Atlantic is rewarded with a huge surge of digital subscriptions
By SARAH SCIRE – Nieman Lab The Atlantic had a very good March. In an email to his staff, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced: We have never, in the…
Young adults read the news — but often don’t see themselves reflected in it
By LAURA HAZARD OWEN Source: Nieman Lab A Knight Foundation survey of 1,660 18- to 34-year-olds, conducted by the University of Chicago’s NORC, finds that…
Donald Trump says he may revoke press credentials for other reporters, not just CNN’s Jim Acosta
Defending his decision to revoke a CNN reporter’s White House press pass, President Donald Trump said Friday he may take the same action against other…