lpetrich
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Political Polarization & Media Habits | Pew Research Center -- a poll of US adults from 2014. It has an interesting chart, "Trust Levels of News Sources by Ideological Group"
In it, the political leanings were "consistently liberal", "mostly liberal", "mixed", "mostly conservative", and "consistently conservative", which I will abbreviate as "con lib", "mos lib", "mixed", "mos con", and "con con", and the poll numbers were reduced to "more trusted than distrusted", "more distrusted than trusted", and "about equally trusted as distrusted".
There were some striking patterns. Only The Wall Street Journal was trusted by all, though BuzzFeed was distrusted by all.
Liberals trusted many more sources than conservatives, and no source had a centrist pattern of trust, trusted by people between the ends more than people at either end. No source had an inverse centrist or bimodal pattern of trust, trusted by those at both ends more than anyone in between. If a source was trusted by mos libs, it was also trusted by con libs, and if it was trusted by mos cons, then it was also trusted by con cons, though the converse was not often true.
X = trusted, - = neutral, (none) = distrusted
For conservatives:
X - : The Rush Limbaugh Show
X X : The Glenn Beck Program, the Sean Hannity Show
X X - : Breitbart, Drudge Report, The Blaze
X X X : Fox News
For liberals:
X - : Al Jazeera America, Daily Kos, The Ed Schultz Show
X X : The Daily Show
X - - : ThinkProgress
X X - : Mother Jones, Politico, Slate, The Colbert Report, The Huffington Post
X X X : MSNBC, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post
X X - - : Yahoo News
X X X - : Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, NBC News, NPR, PBS
X X X X : ABC News, USA Today
X X - - - : The Guardian
X X X X - : BBC, Google News, The Economist
It's very evident who lives in a news-media bubble.
In it, the political leanings were "consistently liberal", "mostly liberal", "mixed", "mostly conservative", and "consistently conservative", which I will abbreviate as "con lib", "mos lib", "mixed", "mos con", and "con con", and the poll numbers were reduced to "more trusted than distrusted", "more distrusted than trusted", and "about equally trusted as distrusted".
There were some striking patterns. Only The Wall Street Journal was trusted by all, though BuzzFeed was distrusted by all.
Liberals trusted many more sources than conservatives, and no source had a centrist pattern of trust, trusted by people between the ends more than people at either end. No source had an inverse centrist or bimodal pattern of trust, trusted by those at both ends more than anyone in between. If a source was trusted by mos libs, it was also trusted by con libs, and if it was trusted by mos cons, then it was also trusted by con cons, though the converse was not often true.
X = trusted, - = neutral, (none) = distrusted
For conservatives:
X - : The Rush Limbaugh Show
X X : The Glenn Beck Program, the Sean Hannity Show
X X - : Breitbart, Drudge Report, The Blaze
X X X : Fox News
For liberals:
X - : Al Jazeera America, Daily Kos, The Ed Schultz Show
X X : The Daily Show
X - - : ThinkProgress
X X - : Mother Jones, Politico, Slate, The Colbert Report, The Huffington Post
X X X : MSNBC, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post
X X - - : Yahoo News
X X X - : Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, NBC News, NPR, PBS
X X X X : ABC News, USA Today
X X - - - : The Guardian
X X X X - : BBC, Google News, The Economist
It's very evident who lives in a news-media bubble.