Subject: [jomcfac] Census Bureau News -- Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 (fwd)
Greetings!
Read on for data on voter turnout in 2004. Interesting comparisons on age, race, gender.

U.S. Voter Turnout Up in 2004, Census Bureau Reports
Sixty-four percent of U.S. citizens age 18 and over voted in the 2004 presidential election, up from 60 percent in 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Tables from a November survey also show that of 197 million citizens, 72 percent (142 million) reported they were registered to vote. Among those registered, 89 percent (126 million) said they voted. In the 2000 election, 70 percent of citizens were registered; and among them, 86 percent voted.
Other highlights from the Voting and Registration in the Election ofNovember 2004 online tables pertaining to the voting-age citizenpopulation:
- In 2004, turnout rates for citizens were 67 percent for non-Hispanicwhites, 60 percent for blacks, 44 percent for Asians and 47 percent forHispanics (of any race). These rates were higher than the previouspresidential election by 5 percentage points for non-Hispanic whites and 3
points for blacks. By contrast, the voting rates for Asian and Hispaniccitizens did not change. These data pertain to those who identifiedthemselves as being of a single race. (See Table 1.)
- Minnesota had the highest citizen-voting rate at 79 percent, and NorthDakota the highest citizen-registration rate at 89 percent. (See Table 2.)
- Citizens age 65 and older had the highest registration rate (79 percent)while those age18 to 24 had the lowest (58 percent). The youngest groupalso had the lowest voting rate (47 percent), while those age 45 and olderhad the highest turnout (about 70 percent). (See Table 1.)
- Among citizens, turnout was higher for women (65 percent) than for men(62 percent). The turnout rate for people with a bachelors degree orhigher (80 percent) was greater than the rate for people whose highestlevel of educational attainment was a high school diploma (56 percent).(See Table 1.)
- Seventy-three percent of veteran citizens cast ballots, compared with 63percent of their nonveteran counterparts. (See Table 1.)
Voting rates in the online tables are calculated using the voting-agepopulation, which includes citizens and noncitizens.
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The data are from the November 2004 Voting and Registration Supplement tothe Current Population Survey (CPS). Statistics from surveys are subjectto sampling and nonsampling error. The CPS estimate of overall turnout(125.7 million) differs from the official turnout, as reported by theClerk of the House(122.3 million).
For further information on the source of the data and accuracy of theestimates, including standard errors and confidence intervals, go to <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html>


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Barbara Semonche, Director, The Park Library
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Subject: [jomcfac] JoMC Faculty Scholarly Contributions
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The current issue of `Journalism History,' Spring 2005, carries an article byFrank Fee and a book review by Barbara Friedman.
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1. Fee, Frank. "Intelligent Union of Black With White." Frederick Douglass and theRochester Press, 1847-48
Abstract: On December 3, 1847, the black abolitionist Frederick Douglasspublished the first issue of the North Star in Rochester, New York. This articleexamines his earliest moments as a journalist by studying the responses of the city'swhite dailies to his new career and his newspaper in late 1847 and early 1848. Thecomments of the city's four dailies, along with accounts of a printers' dinner inJanuary 1848 celebrating Benjamin Franklin's birthday, showed respect for Douglass' talents as an editor but wariness over his Garrisonian abolitionism. The storiessuggested that a tension existed between the daily journalists' politics and theirnascent professionalism and illuminated changes in the craft as it moved frompolitical organs of the early century toward an independent press.

2. Friedman, Barbara. [Book review of Susan Thompson's "The Penny Press: The Originsof Modern News Media, 1833-1861." Published in 2004 by Vision Press, Northport, Ala.
Excerpt: ". . . . New York was the proving ground for the first penny papers,and Thompson includes the era's most prominent, such as Benjamin Day's `Sun' andJames Gordon Bennett's `Herald.' Yet, there were many imitators, and admirably shedevotes a chapter to these lesser-known papers, which have been neglected by manyhistorians.
"A weakness in this well-researched work is that it fails to capture theexhilaration that pervaded the era. For that, Andie Tucher's `Froth and Scum' is alivelier read. . . ."

This current issue of `Journalism History' is in the serials reading area ofThe Park Library.

Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 3:08 PM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] J&MCQ article" "Moral Development of Journalists"
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For those interested in the fulltext of the Coleman and Wilkins research onjournalists' ethics (published in the Autuum 2004 issue of Journalism & MassCommunication Quarterly) here is the direct URL:<http://www.aejmc.org/pubs/jmcqaut04/coleman.pdf>
Makes for rather provocative reading in some respects. An example: thisresearch mentions two variables -- investigative reporting and civic journalism--ashaving been linked to moral development in journalists in qualitative work. Theresearchers in their literature review mention studies that have shown investigativereporters to make moral decisions regarding wrongdoing then abandon objectivity topush for public good, serve as moral judges, and deal with ethical issues more thanother types of reporters. Hmmmmmm.
Best regards,

Barbara Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 10:35 AM