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Dennis Prager Reacts to Startling Survey: ‘Freedom Dies’ Without THIS
July 31st, 2023 10:04 AM
PragerU founder Dennis Prager proclaimed that freedom of speech is critically important and that without it “freedom dies.”
PEW: Plurality of Americans Say Gov’t Shouldn’t Censor Speech Online
August 25th, 2021 1:05 PM
Even after years of liberal media and politicians calling for the censorship of online speech, a plurality of Americans still say the government should not intervene — even at the cost of some false information slipping through. A new…
Pew Survey Suggests Social Media Is Shifting Users’ Political Views
October 19th, 2020 5:24 PM
Social media can often appear to be an echo chamber, especially to those closely following election events. But a recent survey suggests that Big Tech is shifting users’ political views. A study from the Pew Research Center published on October 15 found that 23 percent of adult social media users in the United States changed a political view they hold because of something they saw on social…
Poll: Americans See Skepticism of Media's Interests as 'Healthy'
September 21st, 2020 10:32 AM
During a 12-month period when the news covered everything from impeachment to an upcoming presidential election and from a global pandemic to protests across America on racial issues, a survey concluded that the most significant factor in how a person perceives the “mainstream media” is that individual’s political affiliation. One of the most important elements in this determination is support…
Good News: Even Without Church, Americans are Feeling more Religious
Culture
May 5th, 2020 11:59 AM
The left is salivating about using the pandemic crisis to force massive changes to American society. Average Americans, of course, just want to go back to work or to the mall or to … church. And those desires -- in particular the last one -- could present a formidable stumbling block in the sprint to the new progressive future. Despite years of eager predictions to the contrary, “the opiate of…
Poll: Fake News Is Bigger Problem Than Terrorism, Illegal Immigration
June 6th, 2019 9:15 AM
Many liberals in the mainstream media dismiss the concept of “fake news” as just a term conservatives use when they hear information they don’t like or don’t agree with. However, a new Pew Research Center survey demonstrated that people across the country find that situation to be much more common and more serious than is otherwise reported. Released Wednesday, Pew researchers stated that many…
Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Feel ‘Misunderstood by the News Media’
January 18th, 2019 12:55 PM
In a Pew Research Center poll released Friday, a majority of Americans and nearly three-quarters of Republicans responded that “news organizations don’t understand people like them” and not only that, but this disturbing answer came regardless of their news consumption habits. When asked whether “news organizations understand people like them,” 40 percent of Americans polled agreed while 58…
Colleges: Anti-Diversity and Pro-Exclusion
May 2nd, 2018 5:57 PM
Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush's death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an "amazing racist." Jarrar added, "PSA: either you are against these pieces of s--- and their genocidal ways or you're part of the problem. that's actually how simple…
Majority of Americans Against Government Restricting Fake News
April 20th, 2018 4:20 PM
A new poll by the Pew Research Center shows a majority of Americans do not believe the government should rein in the spread of fake news.
NYT Editor Insinuates Sexism ‘Worse After The Election’
Culture
July 24th, 2017 3:34 PM
Once again, the liberal media are insinuating that sexism in America has hit a new low. The New York Times is currently collecting anecdotes from women recounting post-election sexist behavior. And (shocker) it’s pointing to the 2016 presidential election as the cause.
WashPost Promotes New Poll Asserting Trump Unpopular Around the World
June 27th, 2017 6:36 PM
In their never-ending quest to hammer Donald Trump, reporters in the liberal Washington Post referred to an international poll conducted by the Pew Research Center not once, but twice in two days claiming that the Republican president “has alarmed citizens of the nation’s closest allies and others worldwide.” In addition, the article posted on Monday by Post reporters Isaac Stanley-Becker and…
NYT Twists Religion Study to Mock Christians as 'Less Educated'
December 18th, 2016 2:18 PM
New York Times reporter Liam Stack took a Pew Research Center study about religion and educational attainment around the world, and warped it into a story summarized by this mocking headline: “Christians in U.S. Are Less Educated Than Religious Minorities, Report Says.” The report, which lacks the anti-Christian animus of the headline, showed that worldwide, Jews and Christians were the most…
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Monster Bias: Networks Spend 2X More Time on Pokemon Go than Economy
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August 11th, 2016 4:06 PM
When it came to covering issues voters cared about, the networks didn’t catch ‘em all, especially the most important one. According to the Pew Research Center, voters ranked the economy as their highest priority in July. But the media had different priorities in its coverage. It spent twice as much time reporting on Pokemon Go, a mobile game in which players caught cartoon monsters, than it did…
Lefty Blogger: America a ‘Textbook Study in Narcissistic Tendencies’
May 11th, 2016 10:17 AM
Last month, a Pew Research Center blog post summarized recent survey data on how Americans’ views of “individualism, the role of government, free expression, religion and morality” differ from those of Europeans. The post prompted Kali Holloway of AlterNet to snark up a storm regarding the supposed cluelessness and backwardness of this country, especially the red states.
