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Americans are more likely to turn to local television and newspapers for news and information than to national sources, according to a recent Gallup Poll. The only news source to show an increase in daily use from Gallup's 2002 poll on media ...

Jayson Blair's reporting will be discussed for years to come in the nation's journalism schools -- as an example of how not to be a reporter. Blair resigned under pressure from the New York Times May 1 after he was caught faking news stories and ...

The ways Americans get their news are grounded in routine. For example, Americans may read the newspaper at the breakfast table, tune in to network morning shows, or catch the late local newscast before bed. A Gallup measurement of Americans' ...

People are intensely -- and perpetually -- interested in school quality, particularly the quality of their local schools. But although schools have a vested interest in distributing information about themselves, Gallup data show that schools ...

Globalization and an increasingly multicultural and multireligious West test the mettle of cherished democratic values. As the current cartoon controversy underscores, pluralism and tolerance today demand greater mutual understanding and respect ...

Despite renewed controversy for the U.S. military stemming from news surrounding a massacre in Haditha, Iraq last year -- information that is stirring up image problems for U.S. forces in the Middle East, building on the Abu Ghraib scandal of a ...

Despite a recent critique pronouncing the environmental movement all but dead, and several years of somewhat depressed poll indications of public concern about the environment, there are some small but unmistakable signs of renewal in Americans' ...

According to a recent Gallup Poll, local television news, once behind the national network news in national viewership, is the source of news that Americans most frequently use. Local newspapers rank second in frequency of use, followed by the ...

If the American people were to vote in a national referendum on how best to keep America strong, it is likely that there would be solid and widespread agreement that "honesty in government" is of paramount importance.