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Conservatives trust Fox News more than other outlets, but liberals don't.

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It's because "when it comes to getting news about politics and government, liberals and conservatives inhabit different worlds," according to a Pew Research Center study published on Tuesday.

Conservatives say they trust Fox News and not much else. Liberals say they trust many news outlets, but not Fox.

Among other things, the study underscores Fox's unique position in the media marketplace, thanks to what it calls the "strong allegiance" that conservatives have to Fox.

Overall, among Americans of all political persuasions, CNN is the most-trusted major news outlet, according to Pew's data. 54% of survey respondents said they trusted CNN (the operator of this website), 20% said they distrusted it and 21% said neither. ABC News and NBC News followed closely behind, trusted by 50% of respondents.

44% of the respondents said they trusted Fox News, while 37% said they distrusted it -- only 12% said neither.

Pew found that partisans on both sides are not totally isolated from opposing sources. "Nearly half (47%) of across-the-board conservatives -- and 59% of across-the-board liberals -- say they at least sometimes disagree with one of their closest political discussion partners," the researchers noted.

These disagreements often take place on Facebook (FB, Tech30), which is also a top source of political news, according to the study.

But local TV news outranks Facebook as the most-frequently-named source. Forty-nine percent of respondents said they received news about politics and government from local TV in the past week; 48% named Facebook; 44% named CNN; 39% named Fox News; and 37% named NBC News.

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Among the roughly 20 percent of the American public that comprises the most ardent liberals and conservatives, there is almost no agreement on which news sources are trustworthy, a major report on political polarization from the Pew Research Journalism Project finds.

The year-long study looked at how people get their political information from the news media, social media and friends and family.

There were several news outlets liberals cited as their main source of news. Fifteen percent of those respondents said they relied mostly on CNN for news; 13 percent chose NPR; 12 percent said MSNBC; and 10 percent picked the New York Times.

Conservatives, however, have a far more clear cut preference: nearly half of respondents, 47 percent, rely on Fox News as their main source of information about government and politics.

Source: Pew Research Center

They also have very different views on whether news outlets are to be trusted, with liberals expressing far more trust in media overall. Pew asked respondents about whether they trust 36 different media outlets ranging from network news channels to major newspapers to shows like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report." The most liberal respondents said they trust more than they distrust 28 of the 36 outlets, while the most conservative respondents expressed more distrust of 24 of the 36.

Nearly all news outlets that were trusted by one end of the political spectrum were distrusted by the other end. There were two exceptions: all of the five political groupings polled by Pew (consistently liberal, mostly liberal, mixed, mostly conservative and consistently conservative) trust the Wall Street Journal more than they distrust it. All of the groups distrust the website Buzzfeed more than they trust it, though less than 40 percent of respondents had heard of the site.

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The most ideologically extreme Americans, both liberals and conservatives, have this much in common: they dominate our politics and drive our political discourse with far more influence than people with more mixed views.

But when it comes to where they get their information the two groups could hardly be further apart, according to a survey out Tuesday from the Pew Research Centers Journalism project.

The survey results reflect a longterm trend of balkanization in American media, as the Internet and cable television, by giving people a wider array of choices, opened the way for news outlets increasingly tailored to particular ideological positions.

Nearly half of consistent conservatives go to Fox News as their main source of news about politics and government. Though the same group distrusts 24 of the 36 news sources measured in the survey, 88% of them trust Fox News. Theyre more likely to have friends with the same political views and more likely than any other ideological group to hear views in line with their own expressed on Facebook.

Compare that with consistent liberals, who depend on a wider variety of news sourceschiefly CNN, MSNBC, NPR and The New York Timesand who tend to trust news outlets much more so than conservatives. Perhaps because theyre more likely to see political views that diverge from their own on Facebook, consistent liberals are more likely than anyone else to de-friend someone on a social network, or even end a good old fashioned brick-and-mortar friendship, over a political disagreement.

If you yearn for a less contentious, ideologue-driven version of American politics its not all bad news.

A strong majority of people who pay attention to political posts on Facebook (98%) say that at least some of the time they see posts with views that differ from their own. And among web users Facebook is far and away the biggest social media site and among one of the top sources of political news.

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Conservatives Cluster Around Fox News, While Liberals Vary News Sources

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Dedicated liberals and conservatives are more interested in political news than those in the mushy middle, but trust different sources, a report finds.

The Pew Research Center said that liberals go to a variety of news outlets. They read the New York Times and listen to the BBC and National Public Radio.

Conservatives tend to depend more on a single broadcaster, Fox News. Almost half, or 47 percent, said they look to Fox for news on politics and government.

The report, Political Polarization & Media Habits, was released Tuesday. It is part of a year-long examination of political polarization in the United States.

While those committed to either conservatism of liberalism are only about 20 percent of the U.S. electorate, Pew said they have an impact beyond their numbers. They are more likely to vote and to donate money and time to politics.

Conservatives are more likely to distrust mainstream newspapers and broadcasters. At the same time, 88 percent of the group said Fox News is trustworthy.

Liberals are more trusting. They also rely less on a single source with 15 percent saying CNN is their main news source, 13 percent NPR, 12 percent MSNBC and 10 percent the Times.

"These cleavages can be overstated," the report said. "The study also suggests that in America today, it is virtually impossible to live in an ideological bubble. Most Americans rely on an array of outlets with varying audience profiles for political news."

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Liberals and conservatives get thier news from different sources

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Dedicated liberals and conservatives are more interested in political news than those in the mushy middle, but trust different sources, a report finds.

The Pew Research Center said that liberals go to a variety of news outlets. They read the New York Times and listen to the BBC and National Public Radio.

Conservatives tend to depend more on a single broadcaster, Fox News. Almost half, or 47 percent, said they look to Fox for news on politics and government.

The report, Political Polarization & Media Habits, was released Tuesday. It is part of a year-long examination of political polarization in the United States.

While those committed to either conservatism of liberalism are only about 20 percent of the U.S. electorate, Pew said they have an impact beyond their numbers. They are more likely to vote and to donate money and time to politics.

Conservatives are more likely to distrust mainstream newspapers and broadcasters. At the same time, 88 percent of the group said Fox News is trustworthy.

Liberals are more trusting. They also rely less on a single source with 15 percent saying CNN is their main news source, 13 percent NPR, 12 percent MSNBC and 10 percent the Times.

"These cleavages can be overstated," the report said. "The study also suggests that in America today, it is virtually impossible to live in an ideological bubble. Most Americans rely on an array of outlets with varying audience profiles for political news."

2014 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

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