American adult TikTok users are far more interested in following accounts that post about culture and entertainment than those that post about news and politics, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
The study, released Tuesday, found that influencers and creators with between 5,000 and 1 million followers account for nearly half of all accounts followed by adult TikTok users.
In contrast, journalists, news outlets, and politicians account for less than 1% of followed accounts. Researchers analyzed 664 people’s accounts to create the report.
A study found that nearly 60% of the accounts followed by adult TikTok users post about pop culture and entertainment. Only 5% of the accounts I follow post about news. Researchers also found that accounts that discuss news and politics tend to mix their content with humorous videos and posts about entertainment and pop culture.
This result is in sharp contrast to a similar study conducted by Pew in 2022 that analyzed Twitter accounts. The study found that U.S. adult Twitter users follow far more media, political, and government-related accounts.
Angela Hu, media business reporter
For the first time this fall, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in the expected popular vote (not to be confused with the electoral votes that actually decide the winner), according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena. It was shown that they had a slight lead.
The first paragraph of the Times article highlights another surprising finding. Although Harris is a member of the current administration, those surveyed said they rate her as more of an agent of change than the previous president.
There was a third paradoxical finding in the survey, and the Times featured another article by chief political analyst Nate Cohn. Trump opened up a staggering 13 percentage point lead in Florida (my home state, but no longer the battleground state it has been for years). The gap was much wider than in any other poll in Florida.
That’s not as good as it seems for Trump’s presidential candidacy.
So he was essentially scoring with the intention of winning anyway. The unnecessary Florida vote shattered the advantage Republicans had recently gained in the electoral college compared to national polling results. In other words, this is an even better indication of Harris’ new gains in the popular vote.
I was watching CNN and University of Virginia commentator Larry Sabato was explaining all these positive things about Harris. Anchor Jim Acosta shook his head and simply said, “I don’t understand.” But walking in the weeds at least a little can help you stay abreast of the polls, and in turn, keep up with the horse racing side of the presidential election.
Rick Edmonds, Media Business Analyst
Ta-Nehisi Coates revealed in a recent viral interview that he feels for his “CBS Morning” co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson.
The acclaimed author appeared on his morning show last week to promote his new book, The Message, during which morning anchor Tony Dokoupil questioned Coates about his views on Israel and Palestine. The interview became tense.
In a teaser for the upcoming Oct. 10 episode of “What Now?” with Trevor Noah,” the comedian and former host of “The Daily Show” brought up the interview. “I don’t think you understand the impact the interview caused. Not because of what you said, but because of the way people felt you were treated,” Noah told Coates.
Later, on Spotify’s original weekly podcast, a clip was played in which Dokoupil suggested that the contents of certain sections “would not be out of place in an extremist’s backpack” as he read “The Message.” Ta.
Coates said he expected criticism of his book. “I knew it was going to be a fight someday. Well, I didn’t know at the time that it was going to be the right thing to do, but I knew it was going to be a fight someday.”
Coates then shared his thoughts on what went wrong in the interview and brought up King. He said the “CBS Morning” host read the book and told him what she was going to ask him. Coates also noted that Dr. King had a handwritten note. “On the other hand, I think he (Dokopil) helped me in a way that stole the interview, but I don’t think he helped Nate and Gail. I feel really sorry for them.”
CBS News executive Adrian Roark said at an all-staff meeting Monday that an internal investigation determined Dokoupil’s interview was not in line with the network’s commitment to neutrality, The Washington Post reported. It is said that
Amaris Castillo, Poynter Contributor
Unionized media workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette held a rally outside the paper’s building Tuesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the strike.
Approximately 80 advertising and production staff resigned on October 6, 2022, as the company ended its medical insurance system. About 60 reporters from the paper filed a similar lawsuit two weeks later, protesting stalled contract negotiations. The Post-Gazette shutdown is the first indefinite strike at a U.S. newspaper company since 2000, and is now the longest strike in the country.
Of the five Post-Gazette unions that initially went on strike, one (Teamsters’ local representative truck drivers) settled with the company in April. The remaining four unions, including about 60 employees, 29 of whom belong to the paper’s editorial union, are still on strike, said NewsGuild organizer Jacob Klinger.
Since October 2022, members of the Pittsburgh Newspaper Union have been fighting to end the strike, including reinstating their union contract from 2017, returning to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract, and restoring health care to their colleagues. have maintained the same requirements. coverage.
Neither side is willing to budge, and some union members are pinning their hopes on ending the strike in court. In August, the National Labor Relations Board sought an injunction forcing the Post-Gazette to negotiate new contracts with four unions and return to the Pittsburgh Newspaper Union’s 2017 contract.
From the beginning, the strike caused serious divisions among editorial workers. The strike vote passed 38-36, with about 40 journalists deciding to continue working. Since then, the Post-Gazette has hired dozens of replacement staffers. These workers are facing backlash from informed sources. For example, editorial page editor Brandon McGinley wrote in an August column that Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign had banned Post-Gazette reporters from attending campaign events.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette spokeswoman Alison Ratchelan said in an emailed statement that despite some workers being on strike, the paper has been rated by the Pennsylvania News Media Association for the third consecutive year. He said it had been selected for the News Organization Award. “We are extremely proud of the commitment to sustained excellence that our employees demonstrate every day.”
Since Post-Gazette workers went on strike, a handful of other news outlets have launched their own open-ended strikes, and dozens more have suspended operations for one day. Reporters at the unionized Long Beach Post have been on strike since March, when the company instituted mass layoffs, and workers at The New Yorker and Alden-owned Southern California News Group newspapers are now threatening a strike. It’s set. Tech employees at the New York Times also threatened to go on strike.
Angela Hu, media business reporter
Legendary journalist Bob Woodward is about to publish his latest book called “The War,” and as is often the case with Woodward’s books, its juicy revelations have already made the news. The most newsworthy is that in 2020, Donald Trump sent a U.S.-made coronavirus test to Russian President Vladimir Putin while it was still in short supply, and that Putin and Trump have been testing it somewhat frequently. It seems like they are having a conversation. For more information, see The Washington Post’s Isaac Stanley Becker’s “5 Big Revelations from Bob Woodward’s New Book” and The New York Times’ Peter Baker’s “Trump A book that reignites questions about the president’s relationship with Putin. The company will soon launch a new game called Zorse, which is “a phrase guessing game where every puzzle is a combination of two phrases,” the company told Semafor’s Marta Biino and Max Tan, The New York Times reported. said in a statement. Perhaps alluding to how the game is played, the name refers to a zebra and a horse’s offspring. The Times’ gaming division, along with its culinary division, has been a major driver of revenue growth in recent years, supporting the paper’s finances at a time when other publishers have struggled. “Earlier this year, some media analysts joked that the Times was a gaming company at this point, based on how much time its subscribers spent playing games instead of reading news online. “Biino and Tani reported. Chris Wallace appeared on Mediaite’s “Press Club” podcast and detailed his high-profile departure from Fox News in late 2021. “I had no problem with conservative opinions over liberal ones,” he said. “But what I have a problem with are conspiracies and lies. The truth is non-negotiable.” Margaret Kenny Giancola has been named editor-in-chief of The Buffalo News. “Kenny, a 52-year-old Buffalo native who celebrated his 30th anniversary with The News last week, has served as editor-in-chief for the past year,” the News said in a release. “She becomes the ninth editor in the 144-year history of The News and the second Nardine Academy graduate, joining Margaret M. Sullivan,” according to the Buffalo-based nonprofit Investi. The Tib Post’s Jim Heaney reported that former editor-in-chief Sheila Rayam was “ousted” and that the newspaper’s chain owner, Lee Enterprises, did not explain the move. I heard that Mr. Lee also did not explain the decision to newsroom staff. ” Generative artificial intelligence company OpenAI has signed a new deal with a news organization. Hearst, which operates more than 20 magazines and 40 newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire and Cosmopolitan, will share content from its publications. The Hollywood Reporter’s Winston Cho points out that OpenAI has struck similar deals with Politico and Business Insider owner Axel Springer. News Corporation; Associated Press; Financial Times; Vox Media; and The Atlantic. USA Today analyzed all 3,113 U.S. counties and found that “significant redistricting since 2012 has increased partisan trends in states across the country, leaving only a handful of counties with the outcome of the Nov. 5 presidential election in doubt.” It turned out that it was not. Susan Page, Suhail Bhatt, Savannah Kuchar, Sudiksha Kochi: “Red states get redder. Blue states get bluer. And what about our politics? Hotter.” Online Hate, Disinformation , the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank that tracks extremism, outlined how falsehoods about Hurricane Helen and its aftermath were spread on social media, calling it “widespread misinformation,” of actors who offer a snapshot of hatred and abuse. ” The study found, among other things, that “33 posts containing claims debunked by FEMA, the White House, and the U.S. government” about It turned out that it generated a lot of views. CNN’s Brian Stelter and Liam Riley report, “Florida threatens to sue TV stations over abortion rights ads. FCC chief calls it ‘dangerous.'”
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