From the Pew Research Center via Don Surber:
Partisans Remain Sharply Divided in Their Attitudes About the News Media
After a year of continued tension between President Donald Trump and the news media, the partisan divides in attitudes toward the news media that widened in the wake of the 2016 presidential election remain stark, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data of 5,035 U.S. adults collected between Feb. 22 and March 4, 2018.
Hmmmm - and it took them six months to collate the data and release it?
About one-in-five Americans (21%) have a lot of trust in the information that they get from national news organizations. Slightly more have a lot of trust in information from local news organizations (28%). Fewer Americans (13%) express this level of trust in the information they get from family and friends, and a mere 4% say they trust the information they see on social media a lot. These numbers are mostly unchanged since 2016.
That seems about right - it's all about following the narrative and not actual journalism. Bread and circuses.
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