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Table 25
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| PERCEPTIONS OF NEWSPAPERS |
| |
| "Now
I'd be interested in your opinion of daily newspapers. Even if you don't
read a newspaper regularly, I'd like to know your impressions based on
what you may have seen or heard. Do you think that daily newspapers..." |
| |
Total Public |
| Really
understand, OR |
61% |
| Don't really understand the issues
that are important to your local community |
29 |
| Don't Know |
10 |
| |
| Make objective decisions, OR |
32% |
| Make biased decisions about what
news to publish? |
56 |
| Don't Know |
12 |
| |
| Provide fair and balanced reporting,
OR |
47% |
| Provide unfair and unbalanced
reporting of groups that they might disagree with? |
41 |
| Don't Know |
12 |
| |
| Allow advertisers' interests,
OR |
50% |
| Don't allow to influence news
decisions? |
32 |
| Don't Know |
18 |
| |
| Tend to be more politically liberal,
OR |
46% |
| Tend to be more politically conservative
than you are? |
34 |
| Don't
Know |
20 |
| |
| Are
concerned mainly with the public interest, OR |
30% |
| With
making profits? |
59 |
| Don't
Know |
11 |
| |
| Pay
too much attention, OR |
40% |
| Pay
too little attention to covering ethnic and racial groups? |
28 |
| Don't
Know |
32 |
| |
| Run
lots of articles that are written in a way that... |
| Respects
the intelligence of their readers, OR |
50% |
| Are
'dumbed down' and don't respect readers' intelligence? |
38 |
| Don't
Know |
12 |
