Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Pew: Fifth of Democrats, Republicans get politics news in bubble



Around a fifth of Democrats and Republicans get political news only from outlets mainly used by people who side with them politically, according to data from the Pew Research Center’s Election News Pathways project.
People were asked if they got political and election news in the past week from 30 different sources from a range of news media on various platforms. Researchers used the info gathered to determine the political makeup of each source’s audience.
Pew reported that in total, 20% of all Democrats and independents who lean Democratic get political news only from outlets with left-leaning audiences. Some 18% of all Republicans and independents who lean Republican get their political news only from outlets with right-leaning audiences, according to the survey of 12,043 U.S. adults who are members of the Center’s American Trends Panel, conducted Oct. 29 to Nov. 11, 2019.
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