What do Americans think about free expression rights for musicians?
Americans are less willing to give First Amendment protections to musicians than they are to journalists. 58% agree, for example, that musicians should be able to sing songs with lyrics that others might find offensive. The high school student survey found that 70% of students favored protecting musicians first amendment rights. There has been a significant change in what Americans consider their primary news source since 1997. Today, 61% say that television provides their main source of news, compared to 50% who relied mostly on TV eight years ago. And whereas only 1% relied mostly on the Internet in 1997, today fully 8% say the Internet provides their primary source of news. Increased reliance on TV and the Internet come at the expense of declines in newspaper use and the use of radio. Today, 20% depend primarily on newspapers (a 6 point decline since 1997), and 9% rely only radio (a drop in 6 points). Advances in technology, news ways of presenting the news, and shifts in the Americ
