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Survey shows Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided on what media outlets they trust

Survey shows Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided on what media outlets they trust


Survey shows Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided on what media outlets they trust

A new survey by the Pew Research Center, released Tuesday, illustrates how the country's political polarization has members of both parties in different media silos. Democrats trust more news sources than Republicans, and rarely do their tastes intersect.

There were only two news sources tested that more than three in 10 Republicans said they were likely to trust — Fox News Channel, with 56%, and the Joe Rogan podcast, with 31%.

Meanwhile, 13 of the sources had trust levels of more than 30% among Democrats — the three broadcast news divisions, PBS, CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Associated Press, MSNBC, National Public Radio, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

President Donald Trump is trying to eliminate most government spending for PBS arguing that its news content shows a liberal bias. 

That's not the case for NPR, which is also on Trump's chopping block. Pew finds that more than twice as many Republicans distrust NPR than trust it, while Democrats trust NPR by a 47% to 3% margin.