1. The actual question here is “What news source do you turn to most often for political and election news?”
Pew also asked who *gets* political news from these outlets, and those numbers are very different.
Pew also asked who *gets* political news from these outlets, and those numbers are very different.
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1305093660917280768
2. For the NYT, the GOP/Dem split as the *primary* source is 7/91. For everyone who *gets* political news from the NYT, it’s 23/77. For MSNBC, 30/70. For Fox News, it’s 72/28.
And that doesn’t even include readers who use these outlets for news on other topics.
And that doesn’t even include readers who use these outlets for news on other topics.
3. Or, to use a different and perhaps more relevant measure, 23% of Democrats and leaners are getting some political news from Fox; among GOPers and leaners, 14% get political news from MSNBC, and 24% from CNN. There is real, meaningful overlap in audiences.
4. Filter bubbles are real and problematic, but the biggest problem isn’t that people don’t hear contrary information—it’s that too often, when they hear it, tribalism has preconditioned them to dismiss it.
That’s a much harder problem to solve, but also, a more important one.
That’s a much harder problem to solve, but also, a more important one.
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