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In physics, action at a distance is the concept that an object's motion can be affected by another object without being in physical contact with it; that is, the non-local interaction of objects that are separated in space.
Mar 12, 2012 · The audience, apparently, had not been won over. Neither had Congress: the American Jobs Act was filibustered in the Senate and ignored in the House.
Aug 19, 2024 · In another intervention, participants read book quotes arguing that the news media creates polarization to maximize its audience and that most Democrats and Republicans are part of an “exhausted majority” that rejects polarization.
Jan 13, 2019 · This study empirically investigates the effects of fact-checkers in response to partisan news among polarized audiences in a selective exposure media environment. We rely on two experiments that vary respondents’ exposure to attitudinal-congruent or incongruent political news and a follow-up fact-check article debunking the information.
- Media Sources: Nearly Half of Consistent Conservatives Cite Fox News
- Trust and Distrust: Liberals Trust Many, Conservatives Trust Few
- Social Media: Conservatives More Likely to Have Like-Minded Friends
- Media Outlets by The Ideological Composition of Their Audience
When it comes to choosing a media source for political news, conservatives orient strongly around Fox News. Nearly half of consistent conservatives (47%) name it as their main source for government and political news, as do almost a third (31%) of those with mostly conservative views. No other sources come close. Consistent liberals, on the other h...
At least as important as where people turn for news is whosenews they trust. And here, the ideological differences are especially stark. Respondents were asked whether they had heard of each of the 36 outlets listed in the accompanying graphic. For those they had heard of, they were asked about their trust – or distrust – in each source. Liberals, ...
Consistent liberals who pay attention to politics on Facebook are also more likely than others to “like” or follow issue-based groups: 60% do this, compared with 46% of consistent conservatives and just a third (33%) of those with mixed views. And both the left and the right are more likely than others to follow political parties or elected officia...
Ideological differences in media source preferences result in distinct audience profiles for many media outlets. Many sources, such as the Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News have audiences that are, on average, ideologically similar to the average web respondent. Reflecting liberals’ use of a greater number of media sou...
Mar 12, 2019 · Ideological polarization is the distance between policy preferences, and here most studies examine the elites (policymakers and politicos) who lead the American political system.
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Jan 28, 2020 · Why the media is so polarized — and how it polarizes us. Read an excerpt from Why We’re Polarized, the new book by Ezra Klein.
