Conservative, Liberal Sites Both Fueling Race “Conversation”
There are three topics in the American political discourse that trigger something of a Pavlovian response for me: these are Israel, race and media bias. When a story in one of these subject areas...
View ArticleCandidates Who Do Better Than Expected Win More Media Attention
The dramatic finish of the Iowa caucus — the confirmation of a late surge in support for Rick Santorum and the eight-vote margin separating him and Mitt Romney — brings up the question of what happens...
View ArticleDo Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers?
The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners of the annual journalism awards. We’re fans of high-quality journalism at FiveThirtyEight, and...
View Article‘Inequality’ Booms on MSNBC And Fox News (CNN’s Looking For Flight 370)
In 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president and the global economy teetered near collapse, the word “inequality” was used just 14 times on the liberal-leaning cable...
View ArticleOur Story About What the Media Said About What Karl Rove Said About Hillary...
Thirty days in the hospital. And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.That’s what Karl Rove, the...
View ArticleNo Matter Which Country Makes A Movie, Women Are The Minority
A new study released Monday from the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative (MDSC) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found a lack of...
View ArticleWe’ve Stopped Talking About Domestic Violence And The NFL
In early September, the story of Ray Rice assaulting his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City casino exploded in the media, sparking a debate about how to prevent — and respond to — domestic violence in...
View ArticleIs The Ebola Crisis Affecting The Midterm Elections?
Politico reported on Monday that Democrats are in danger in November’s midterm elections — because of Ebola. According to a Politico poll, Republican-leaning voters have less confidence than...
View ArticleParenting, Pollution And Media Bias
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
View ArticleDemocrats See The Media As Biased Against Clinton
We’re now into Week 2 of the Hillary Clinton email saga, but if Martin O’Malley and his aides are huddled in Maryland somewhere hoping this hurts Clinton in 2016, all I can say is, “Don’t hold your...
View ArticleWinter Is Not The Time To Draw Grand Conclusions About The Movie Industry
The New York Times published a story last week looking at how women have been driving box office revenues so far this year. It’s a hopeful article — some sources in the piece said this success is...
View ArticleThere Are Few Libertarians. But Many Americans Have Libertarian Views.
The New York Times’ Paul Krugman, assessing the presidential candidacy of Rand Paul, asserts that there aren’t very many libertarians in the United States. Most Americans, Krugman says, take clearly...
View ArticleBrian Williams’s Reign At NBC Is Over — Here’s How It Stacks Up
Congratulations, Lester Holt! Today, you were officially announced as the 10th anchor18 of the NBC evening newscast. Holt is the second African-American to become the anchor of a major weekday nightly...
View ArticleThe Bernie Sanders Surge Is About Bernie, Not Hillary
“The recent rise of Bernie Sanders,” wrote Vox’s Jonathan Allen last week, “points as much to [Hillary] Clinton’s vulnerability as Sanders’s strength.” Allen went on to argue that Joe Biden should run...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is The World’s Greatest Troll
“A troll,” according to one definition, “is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people … with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Six Stages Of Doom
The recent polling surge by Donald Trump has launched a thousand stories about Trump’s “unprecedented campaign.” But it’s nothing all that unusual: Similar surges occurred for almost every Republican...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Inevitable Problems
With so many candidates and so long to go until next November, we’re going to make plenty of bad predictions over the course of the 2016 campaign. But one of our very first predictions about 2016, one...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Running A Perpetual Attention Machine
Earlier this month, I outlined Donald Trump’s “Six Stages of Doom” — the hurdles he’ll have to clear to win the Republican nomination. The first obstacle: Could Trump keep his polling numbers up when...
View ArticleMost Of The Biden Speculation Is Malarkey
Another day, another batch of mostly redundant and anonymously sourced stories about whether Vice President Joe Biden will run for president. Some of those stories, however, are getting ridiculous. So...
View ArticleKeep Calm And Ignore The 2016 ‘Game Changers’
If you were to rank the most exciting presidential nomination contests, the 1996 Republican race would be near the bottom. Bob Dole, the “next-in-line” GOP candidate and the Senate majority leader,...
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