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What Would the People Ask?

Andrew Kohut, Director of The Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, addressed the question of ‘What would the people ask?’ by sharing results of a September 1999…
June 15, 2000

Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Are members of the press asking candidates the right questions? What should those questions be? A number of panelists, including journalists and politicians, had some ideas about specific topics that…
June 15, 2000

Do Members of the Press Try to Set the Policy Agenda?

Lee Hamilton, former congressman from Indiana: “I am impressed about how many people in the media in Washington, D.C. really are not much interested in doing what I at least…
June 15, 2000

The Sound You Hear Is Silence

When the subject is corporate immorality, nary a judgmental word is heard.
June 15, 2000

Designing and Distributing the Survey

With the help of researcher Sue Schuermann, electronic databases were examined to find news stories about corporate crimes and misconduct. These examples were individualized for inclusion in the letters that…
June 15, 2000

News Stories about Corporate Crime and Misconduct

The query to editorial page editors and commentators cited more than 20 specific examples of grave corporate crime and misconduct.A sampling follows: The Ortho unit of Johnson & Johnson* pleaded…
June 15, 2000

Summer 2000: Watchdog Conference Introduction

It’s the tendency to focus on the celebrity, the character, not serious character but personality traits of political figures that trivializes the political process. So the focus of this discussion…
June 15, 2000

‘Journalism and Democracy Are Names for the Same Thing.’

A book raises journalists from their self-interested complacency.
June 15, 2000

Against the Commercial Impulse

An author argues for journalism being a vital force in democracy.
June 15, 2000

Keeping a Reporter’s Eye on the Contributions

It’s easier to find the money, but does the public still want to know?
June 15, 2000