Charts

Way to address “fake news” problem Percent of journalists who say extremely/very important Make the difference between news stories and opinion more distinct 79% Be [...]

Definition of the term “fake news” Percent of public Made-up stories from news outlets that don’t exist 71% Media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories [...]

Interaction Reporting was unbiased and fair Reporting was biased and unfair You were interviewed by a journalist for a news story 81% 18% You had [...]

Decreased Stayed the same Increased The news media in general 44% 39% 17% My own preferred news source 13% 54% 32%

Age group Think most news reports are fairly inaccurate Think most news reports are fairly accurate 18-29 years old 53% 47% 30-44 years old 43% [...]

Slightly/not at all accurately Moderately accurately Completely/very accurately PUBLIC Liberals 28% 46% 25% Conservatives 33% 45% 21% Democrats 24% 43% 31% Republicans 31% 41% 26% [...]

News behavior More than once a day Once a day Less than once a day Never Scan headlines of many stories 39% 30% 26% 5% [...]

Ways public consumes news Very/somewhat easy to recognize opinion Neither difficult nor easy Very/somewhat difficult News organization used most frequently 75% 16% 8% Local TV [...]

Journalistic concepts The public understands this extremely/very well Somewhat well Not very well/at all What the term “source” means 15% 42% 43% The First Amendment [...]

Slightly/not at all accurately Moderately accurately Completely/very accurately PUBLIC Wealthy people 27% 34% 38% The middle class 32% 50% 17% Lower-income people 49% 36% 15% [...]