Anthony Corrado.
Brookings Institution. March 11, 2004
How will campaign finance reform affect the
role of political parties in federal elections? Will parties be
able to maintain their status as principal actors in the electoral
process? Will they have the resources needed to provide meaningful
assistance to candidates, as well as to turn out party supporters
on Election Day? These are the questions at the heart of the debate
over the merits of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA),
Congress's most recent attempt to control the influence of money
in electoral politics. This paper offers an initial response to
these questions by presenting an analysis of party finances after
the first year under BCRA and offering an early assessment of
the role of party money in the 2004 elections.
The
Project for Excellence in Journalism [Columbia University School
of Journalism]. March 15, 2004.
This report is the first of what is planned
as an annual report on the state of the U.S. news media. The
study was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Among the findings
of the study are:
* Daily newspaper circulation has fallen
11 percent since 1990;
* Network evening news ratings have declined 34 percent since
1993;
* The audience for cable television news has remained flat since
2001.
* Many U.S. newsrooms are seeing significant cutbacks. There
are one-third fewer network TV correspondents than in 1985.
There has been a 3 percent decline in news and editorial employees
at newspapers since 1990 and a drop of 44 percent in full-time
radio newsroom employees between 1994 and 2001.
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