At the top of the list by a wide margin is Fox News, distrusted by 61% of Democrats for political and election news. Only four of the 30 sources in this study are distrusted by one-third or more Democrats and Democratic leaners. Hefty party-line differences come through when looking at levels of distrust as well. It is one thing to not express trust in an outlet voicing outright distrust is another matter. Distrust levels offer a near reverse image of party-line gaps in trust
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Trust measures for the full list of sources can be found in the sortable tables below, but in all, 18 sources are trusted by fewer than 20% of Republicans, compared with 13 trusted by fewer than 20% of Democrats. Similarly, the percentage of Republicans who trust The New York Times (15%) and The Washington Post (13%) is about a third of the share of Democrats who do. Even though the three broadcast networks rank among Republicans’ top five most-trusted sources, only about half as many Republicans as Democrats trust them. The only other source trusted by as many as one-third of Republicans is ABC (33% of Republicans), followed closely by CBS, NBC and the Sean Hannity radio show (all at 30%). Public radio outlet NPR and Time magazine are each trusted by 46% of Democrats.Ĭonversely, after the 65% of Republicans and Republican leaners who trust Fox News as a source, trust levels drop precipitously. Next come the United Kingdom-based public media outlet BBC (48%), the cable channel MSNBC (48%) and The Washington Post (47%). See the methodology for more details.Īlso trusted by at least 50% of Democrats are the public television outlet PBS (56%) and The New York Times (53%). Finally, respondents were asked if they had gotten political or election news in the past week from any of the outlets they had heard about. If they didn’t say that they trust an outlet, they were then asked if they distrusted it.
If they had heard of an outlet, they were asked if they trusted it for political and election news. Respondents were shown grids of 30 news outlets and asked to select the ones that they had heard of. How respondents were asked about 30 sources That is followed by the three commercial broadcast networks, all closely bunched together: NBC News (61% of Democrats), ABC News (60%) and CBS News (59%). Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, CNN sits at the top, trusted by two-thirds (67%) of Democrats. Outlets with low awareness among the public, for example, would also necessarily have smaller portions who could express trust or distrust.Īlmost half (13) of the 30 sources asked about are trusted by at least 33% of Democrats, and six are trusted by at least 50%.
It’s worth noting that trust and distrust figures are somewhat dependent on how much of the population has heard of the source. Among the outlets respondents had heard of, they were asked to then click on those they trusted and then those they distrusted for political and election news. (For more details, see the methodology.) Respondents were shown grids of sources and asked to click on those they had heard of. This analysis asked individuals about 30 specific news sources across different platforms, selected on a range of measures including audience size, topic areas covered and relevance to political news. One of the clearest differences between Americans on opposing sides of the political aisle is that large portions of Democrats express trust in a far greater number of news sources.
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