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    Amy Mitchell

    Director, Journalism Research

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    Twitter: asmitch
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    Americans’ Views of the News Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak
    More Americans hold positive than negative views of the news media’s COVID-19 coverage, but Republicans and Democrats remain starkly divided.
    Fewer Americans now say media exaggerated COVID-19 risks, but big partisan gaps persist
    The percentage who say journalists have exaggerated the risks of the outbreak has decreased notably in recent weeks.
    About Seven-in-Ten U.S. Adults Say They Need to Take Breaks From COVID-19 News
    61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.
    Older Americans continue to follow COVID-19 news more closely than younger adults
    More than two-thirds of adults ages 65 or older said they were following news of the pandemic very closely.
    Early in outbreak, Americans cited claims about risk level and details of coronavirus as made-up news
    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.
    Cable TV and COVID-19: How Americans perceive the outbreak and view media coverage differ by main news source
    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.
    Americans who primarily get news through social media are least likely to follow COVID-19 coverage, most likely to report seeing made-up news
    More than half of these social media news consumers say they have encountered made-up news about COVID-19.
    Americans Immersed in COVID-19 News; Most Think Media Are Doing Fairly Well Covering It
    About half say they have seen at least some made-up news about the virus; 29% think it was created in a lab.
    Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries
    There are notable differences between white and black Democrats in news consumption habits and assessments of recent political events and figures in the news.
    About one-fifth of Democrats and Republicans get political news in a kind of media bubble
    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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