Poll shows wide differences in opinion by news consumption

An NBC News poll continues to show an enormous divide in opinion by how Americans get their news — either conservative media, liberal media, social media and those who still get their news from broadcast TV and newspapers.

Check out these numbers:

Biden job approval

• All adults: 49 percent
• Among those who get their news from conservative media: 24 percent
• Among those who get news from liberal media: 69 percent
• Among those who get news from newspapers/broadcast TV (not cable or social media): 60 percent
• Among those who get news from social media: 47 percent

Approval of Biden’s Covid handling

• All: 53 percent
• Conservative media: 30 percent
• Liberal media: 73 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 63 percent
• Social media: 50 percent

Approval of Biden’s economic handling

• All: 47 percent
• Conservative media: 24 percent
• Liberal media: 65 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 52 percent
• Social media: 46 percent

Approval of Biden’s Afghanistan handling

• All: 25 percent
• Conservative media: 12 percent
• Liberal media: 37 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 29 percent
• Social media: 20 percent

Fauci favorable rating

• All: 40 percent
• Conservative media: 17 percent
• Liberal media: 57 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 56 percent
• Social media: 33 percent

Congressional preference

• All: D+1
• Conservative media: R+56
• Liberal media: D+45
• Newspapers/broadcast: D+19
• Social media: D+2

Already received Covid vaccine

• All: 69 percent
• Conservative media: 60 percent
• Liberal media: 79 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 78 percent
• Social media: 65 percent

Worst still to come with Covid

• All: 42 percent
• Conservative media: 34 percent
• Liberal media: 56 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 44 percent
• Social media: 41 percent

Jan 6 was act of terrorism

• All: 52 percent
• Conservative media: 29 percent
• Liberal media: 69 percent
• Newspapers/broadcast: 58 percent
• Social media: 52 percent

It’s a chicken-or-egg question: What came first — the media Americans are getting that are informing their views?

Or did they already have these views first — and they decided to get their news from them as a result?

Or it is a combination of the two?