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The decades-long, extremely well-funded conservative effort to completely cut its suburban/rural base off from mainstream sources of information has basically succeeded. Not clear that democracy can survive it.
Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans
In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half.
pewresearch.org
1:31 PM · Aug 31, 2021
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/30/partisan-divides-in-media-trust-widen-driven-by-a-decline-among-republicans/
In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half dropping from 70% in 2016 to 35% this year. This decline is fueling the continued widening of the partisan gap in trust of the media.
Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78%) say they have a lot or some trust in the information that comes from national news organizations 43 percentage points higher than Republicans and Republican leaners (35%) according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 14-27, 2021. This partisan gap is the largest of any time that this question has been asked since 2016. And it grows even wider to 53 points between liberal Democrats (83%) and conservative Republicans (30%).
The 35% of Republicans who have at least some trust in national news organizations in 2021 is half that of in 2016 (70%) and has dropped 14 points since late 2019 (49%). By comparison, Democrats have remained far more consistent in the past five years, ranging somewhere between 78% and 86%.
Overall, about six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) say they have at least some trust in the information that comes from national news organizations. While still a majority, this is the smallest share over the past five years this question was asked. When it was last asked in late 2019, 65% expressed at least some trust. And far fewer (12%) express that they have a lot of trust in the information that comes from national news organizations.
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brush
(53,467 posts)these feeding on disinformation magats.
brewens
(13,393 posts)RW media. It will be interesting to see what happens when they have massed school closures again. They aren't being told the truth about delta. They think they have an absolute guarantee school goes on as normal this year. It looks to me that the virus will not permit that. It's not going to take many dead kids to do it, at least I hope not many.
brush
(53,467 posts)and schools have had to close...in states with no-mask, repug governors and magats fighting masking and vaccines for school staffs.
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)I'm getting a little fed up with the media myself. I can't even watch it anymore. One more "breaking news" story about Afghanistan (which is nothing but the same old story) and I'm going to lose it.
David__77
(23,214 posts)Why is it needed to trust it? Research and distill information and make ones own determination.