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by rayiner 1617 days ago
Fox’s viewership is older and whiter than NPR’s. But Fox’s popularity means that even Black Democrats are much more likely to watch Fox than to listen to NPR (or read the NYT): https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/03/11/black-and-.... About 1/3 of Black democrats get political news from Fox. Just 10% get political news from NPR.

> One way that black Democrats break out of the media bubble is that roughly a third (36%) get political news from Fox News, which, according to the Center’s survey data, has an audience that leans to the right politically. That contrasts sharply with the 17% of white Democrats who get political news from Fox.

> In using sources for political news, black Democrats are also more inclined to turn to ABC News (53%) and CBS News (46%) than white Democrats (35% and 34%, respectively). White Democrats, however, are much more inclined to get political news from The New York Times (39%) than their black counterparts (12%). The same pattern holds for NPR (43% vs. 10%) and The Washington Post (32% vs. 13%).