Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Released: April 12, 1990
Events overseas are overshadowing the importance of domestic news to the public. Americans are ten times more likely to cite an international news story (40%) than a domestic one (4%) as the most important event of the month. This is the fifth month in a row that Americans have named overseas stories more often than U.S. based ones as the most important news of the period.
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