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Monday, August 26, 2024

Party Affiliation Is Now Entirely Correlated With Trust in MSM


The American news landscape is fractured and polarized, with no outlet singularly gaining the public's attention or trust.
 
Party identification, and to some extent age, divide American media consumption. Most adults say that at least half their news consumption is politics-related, and most major news sources are perceived by Americans as either left- or right-leaning.

Republicans realize it’s propaganda. Independents are on the path. Democrats are the people still plugged into the Matrix.


Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to trust the news in general, as well as to trust most specific outlets. Republicans — and Americans in general — are more likely to classify news sources as liberal than as conservative, though there are exceptions. 

According to a recent YouGov Poll, Democrats and Republicans find some common ground when it comes to sources for financial news, but hold vastly different opinions on other news sources, including the two used most often: CNN and Fox News.

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