Lookout Looking Out for Other Outlooks

Dear reader,

Lately, the Lookout has included coverage of three No Kings demonstrations. A few people who opposed the demonstrations came out and made their own noise. I spoke with a couple of them, who seemed to see a world different from the world the demonstrators saw. That makes sense, given the difference in sources of information that conservatives who support Trump tend to depend on from the sources that liberals rely on, as Ezra Klein noted in his book Why We’re Polarized, citing a 2014 Pew. Research Center survey. Pew asked people to rate their trust in 36 news sources, showing that 47% of “consistent conservatives” rely on Fox News as their main news source, and many trusted Breitbart, the Wall Street Journal, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The liberals trusted a wider range of sources, from center right to left, with no more than 15% depending on one as their main source, CNN, followed by 13% for NPR, then MSNBC and the New York Times.

A few apparent conservatives have criticized the Lookout coverage of the demonstrations. I asked one couple observing the Milford demonstration what their news sources were, and they cited Fox and NewsMax. If you are in that group, I invite you to email me (tristatelookout@gmail.com) and say how you see the world differently from the demonstrators.

Thanks,

Jessica

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