A survey from July 2022 asked Americans how they felt about the effects of bias in news on their ability to sort out facts, and revealed that 50 percent felt there was so much bias in the news that it was difficult to discern what was factual from information that was not. This was the highest share who said so across all years shown, and at the same time, the 2022 survey showed the lowest share of respondents who believed there were enough sources to be able to sort out fact from fiction.

A survey held in the United States in 2022 showed that 23 percent of responding adults believed CNN to be very credible, whereas 20 percent said that they did not consider CNN credible at all. Opinions on news media tend to vary according to readers’ political stance, age, educational background, and myriad other factors, and in an age where fake news is a growing problem, consumers are demonstrating a higher degree of awareness of how and where they access their news.

Navigating news media in the United States

In 2021, ABC was considered the most credible major news organization in the United States, followed closely by CBS and NBC. By comparison, just 31 percent of surveyed U.S. adults thought of Huffington Post as a credible news source, and National Public Radio and MSNBC did not fare much better. Credibility is important – there are serious concerns about the accuracy of news stories and a study revealed that most Americans believed that fake news causes a great deal of confusion about basic facts. Accurate reporting as a result of proper research and fact-checking is more in demand than ever, as consumers grow increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness of traditional and modern news sources. What does this mean for news networks As one of the leading cable news networks in the U.S., CNN is a powerful news source and its content is consumed by hundreds of thousands of people per day, meaning that the news channel has a certain degree of responsibility. Failure to deliver clear, accurate, unbiased content to consumers can detrimentally affect ratings, and in an environment as competitive as the news media market, the pressure is on to cater to new and existing viewers alike and deliver reliable, non-partisan content.

When are voters more likely to project their own political position onto a candidate for office? We investigate this question by examining the assumed partisanship of a (self- declared) centrist politician, using data from a survey experiment fielded in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In doing so, we build on the social categorization model as well as recent U.S.- focused political science research on projection and ingroup/outgroup racial divides— extending our analysis to incorporate racial and class similarities/differences across three countries where these divides likely vary in salience. We thus seek: (1) to contribute to research on the inferences citizens draw in nonpartisan elections and low- information contexts generally and (2) to highlight some potential methodological complications of using partisanship- less candidates in vignette experiments. Results suggest that even in the face of a self- declared centrist, voters from across the political spectrum tended to assume shared partisanship in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examining projection by ingroup/outgroup divisions indicated that class appears to shape projection across all three countries, but that the racial divide only mattered in the United States. Finally, we also find evidence of counterprojection toward outgroup members— but once again only in the American context.

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