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

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

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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