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All the airtime in the world for illegal immigration is of little use to the CBS and FOX audiences

Regarding top concern #6, it can be confirmed that both networks gave the issue enough airtime in their top news stories (2.6 percent on CBS, 3.8 percent on FOX) for their viewers to feel that their concerns were being addressed. However, neither network makes much of the fact that the crisis has been steadily defused since Obama. It seems grotesque for Trump to blame his successors for what he himself - from the perspective of CBS and FOX - did not do better.

2024-09-27

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The 'Unlearning Intolerance' master classes initiated by Ramu Damodaran at the UN in New York since 2005 have obviously not yet contributed to a better understanding of the situation.

While CBS and FOX focus their coverage on illegal immigration, the reality is that while the number of illegal immigrants almost quadrupled from 3.5 million to 12 million under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the measures introduced by Barack Obama have had an effect and led to ...

For more than a decade, the actions of politicians and parties in the United States have been presented to Europeans - whether in England, Germany, Spain or Switzerland - in a predominantly critical light.

2024-09-20

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Drug addiction is the number 4 concern - but the leading media hardly take it seriously

The TV-Debate illustrated multiple results: 1) some of the top concerns (see the PEW Ranking in this graph) bothering the voters were touched – but most not. 2) Kamela Harris was able to make her case – all post-polls underline her request to go for a second TV debate. 3) Paul Krugman highlighted an observa-tion which rarely is addressed in the opinion leading media, since the topic of age faded: “Many people get worse as they grow older because they become more like themselves” The unresolved problem of drug addiction is one of the top 5 concerns that have been on the nation's mind for years – but it was not addressed in the TV-Debate.

2024-09-13

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Top concern No. II: Dems and Reps lack respect

20 years ago today, Yale University hosted one of its US Presidential Election Debates. Looking at the media tenor analyses, Ed Luttwak asked the oppressive question: “Will Democracy Survive the Media?” Together with the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, we have been presenting data like that in this report ever since. They make it hard for journalists to wash their hands of the question, “Why are Dems and Reps so bad at working together?” like Pontius Pilate in his days.

2024-08-30

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Problems Pile Up in America – But Leading Media Ignore Concerns

For decades, the analysts at Media Tenor have been evaluating the most important news programs of selected US broadcasters on a daily basis: Which topics are at the forefront of coverage, which politicians, companies, researchers are visible with approaches to solutions? Using the example of the news content of CBS on the one hand and FOX on the other, we have been showing since 2013 how far removed the broadcasters are from the fears of their audience when setting their agenda: It's not just 2024 that inflation tops the list when PEW pollsters ask people about their biggest concerns.

2024-08-27

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