How Americans Navigated the News in 2020: A Tumultuous Year in Review
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
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Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
A new analysis of open-ended responses to a survey of U.S. adults looks at the specific storylines or claims about COVID-19 that Americans said they were exposed to.
Those ages 18 to 29 differ from older Americans in their news consumption habits and in their responses to major news events and coverage.
The public’s sense about the pandemic’s impact on the financial well-being of most news organizations is far from clear.
Among black Americans, 72% say coverage has been good or excellent and 85% say Trump’s message has been completely or mostly wrong.
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
Nearly three out of four U.S. adults say that, in general, it’s important for journalists to function as watchdogs over elected officials.
In total, 20% of all Democrats get political news only from outlets with left-leaning audiences, while 18% of all Republicans do so only from outlets with right-leaning audiences.
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