The link between local news coverage and Americans’ perceptions of crime
Roughly three-quarters of adults (77%) say they often or sometimes get local news and information about crime.
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Roughly three-quarters of adults (77%) say they often or sometimes get local news and information about crime.
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
Most Americans say it is not important that the news they get comes from journalists who share their political views, age, gender or other traits.
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40% of Black Americans say that the issues and events most important to them are often covered, and similar shares of Asian (38%) and Hispanic (37%) adults say the same.
About four-in-ten Black Americans (39%) say they extremely or fairly often see or hear news coverage about Black people that is racist or racially insensitive.
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