Title: U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided | Pew Research Center
Headings: U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided
U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided
Deep partisan divisions exist in the news sources Americans trust, distrust and rely on
How we did this
How we asked about trust and distrust
The Fox News phenomenon
The impact of political ideology on Americans’ trust in news outlets
The divide widens over time
Pagination

Content: Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. Recruiting our panelists by phone or mail ensures that nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. This gives us confidence that any sample can represent the whole population. To further ensure that each survey reflects a balanced cross section of the nation, the data are weighted to match the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. For more, see the report’s methodology and this Q&A about the project. You can also find the questions we asked, and the answers the public provided, in this topline. As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments. Overall, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents view many heavily relied on sources across a range of platforms as untrustworthy. At the same time, Democrats and independents who lean Democratic see most of those sources as credible and rely on them to a far greater degree, according to the survey of 12,043 U.S. adults conducted Oct. 29–Nov. 11, 2019, on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel.