August 12-15, 2010: Pew Weekly News Interest Index Poll—Nationwide poll solicits the public۪s views on the fairness of the media۪s coverage of poor people.
“(Now thinking about news coverage of some different kinds of people in the United States.) Do you think news coverage of…poor people is generally too positive, too negative, or is it generally fair?”
6% Too positive
45% Too negative
35% Generally fair
13% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, August 12 – August 15, 2010 and based on 1,005 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 672 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 333 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 141 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.081910NII.R5E]
Formal Citation
Pew Weekly News Interest Index Poll, Aug, 2010. Retrieved Sep-2-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html