Local news is playing an important role for Americans during COVID-19 outbreak
Some 61% of U.S. adults say they follow COVID-19 news at both the national and local level equally, and 23% say they pay more attention to local news.
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Some 61% of U.S. adults say they follow COVID-19 news at both the national and local level equally, and 23% say they pay more attention to local news.
More than two-thirds of adults ages 65 or older said they were following news of the pandemic very closely.
The percentage who say journalists have exaggerated the risks of the outbreak has decreased notably in recent weeks.
Many U.S. news organizations are covering the coronavirus pandemic while themselves facing financial pressure from the outbreak.
Americans’ confidence in checking COVID-19 information aligns closely with their confidence in checking the accuracy of news stories broadly.
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.
Responses to cable news coverage and the pandemic vary notably among Americans who identify Fox News, MSNBC or CNN as their main source of political news.
Black adults were much more likely than whites and somewhat more likely than Hispanic adults to frequently discuss the pandemic with others.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
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