What percentage of the adult population watches ABC and/or CBS and/or NBC but _not_ Fox?
What percentage of the adult population watches Local News but no network news?
What percentage of the adult population watches watches local news _and_ network news?
What percentage of the adult population watches no or little news?
What percentage of the adult population reads a local newspaper but no metropolitan newspaper?
What percentage of the adult population reads a metropolitan newspaper?
What percentage of the adult population listens to radio news? (How distributed among different sources of radio news?)
What percentage of the adult population has watched and/or listened to more than one presidential address?
What percentage of newspaper readers read the news section.
What percentage of newspaper readers read the letters to the editor?
What percentage of the adult population gets their news from conversation with friends, coworkers, or relatives?
What percentage of the adult population do _not_ watch any of the top 10 tv programs?
What percentage of the adult population reads political columns in the daily or sunday paper?
What percentage of the adult population knows who O'Reilly is?
What percentage of the adult population knows who Edwards is?
What percentage of the adult population knows that H.Clinton ever had anything to do with health issues?
What percentage of the DP voters know where Kosovo is?
What percentage of the adult population watch 4 or more hours a week of tv programs _not_ in the top 50 programs?
What percentage of the adult population watches Nick at Night?
What percentage of the adult population have cable tv?
Is there _any_ one "event" (program, speech, movie, headline) experienced by 70% or more of the population in a given six month period?
Under what conditions would large numbers of non-voters vote?
Would conditions that would (might) cause non-voters to vote leave their opinions the same as they are now?
Is patriotism (in the u.s.) a positive attitude or an attitude towards those who ae (are thought to be) non-patriotic?*
Carrol
*Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, "I'm a Christian," and the other party replies, "Yes, but who are you a Christian AGAINST?"
P.S. This post was originally written in response to certain threads on lbo-talk, but then it occurred to me that some of the questions could best be answered by professional social-scientists. (Should I put a :-) after "professional social scientists"?)