Political Polarization: Mainstream Media
Chart A: Source Chart B: Source Chart A represents how Democrats and Republicans perceive the news media. A major trend is according to from the chart, there are more Democrats than Republicans that care about the news outlet in general, this is because from Chart B, 47% of Democrats are willing to own up to their mistakes compared to 8% of Republicans; 41% Democrats believe the news media are moral compared to 14% of Republicans, and 52% of Democrats want to protect democracy compared to 18% of Republicans. In other words, protecting democracy is free speech, and no censoring, which is known as fake news. On the other hand, a pattern I noticed is 43% of Republicans care about the people on the news outlet they watch on and are willing to protect the free speech based on their news outlet provided for them. Compared to Chart B, this shows the political bias based on each news outlet. News outlets that are placed towards the left, lean more liberal compared to the right
