06/15/2020

Majority of Americans Say News Coverage of George Floyd Protests Has Been Positive

They also feel Trump’s public message is wrong

The killing of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police and the protests that ensued across the country have dominated news coverage that had for the past few months been consumed with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Americans have been following news of Floyd’s death and the demonstrations that followed nearly as closely as they had been keeping up with news related to COVID-19, and many are discussing it frequently with others, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 9,654 U.S. adults on the American Trends Panel, conducted June 4-10, 2020,  as part of the Center’s American News Pathways project.

Amid this intense interest, the public has differing assessments of the news media’s coverage and the message being delivered by their president. Fully six-in-ten U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s message in response to the protests has been wrong, including about four-in-ten (39 percent) who say it has been “completely” wrong. Fewer (37 percent) say his message has struck the right tone, with just 12 percent saying Trump has delivered the “completely” right message.

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