How Pew Research Analyzed America’s Polarized Media Consumption Habits

By: Drew DeSilver and Amy Mitchel | Pew Research Center

America’s widening ideological divisions are showing up in more and more aspects of American life — from how likely people are to vote to where they want to live and what they want their children taught. And, as the latest report in the Pew Research Center’s year-long series on polarization makes clear, politics heavily influences people’s media habits as well: Americans on either end of the ideological spectrum get their news from very different sources.