The Pew survey also provides evidence for the notion that media bubbles are creating an environment for partisans to reinforce their existing preferences.
Within the Republican Party itself, support for Trump tracks closely with evaluations of the news media. Among Republicans who strongly approve of the president, 85 percent think journalists have low or very low ethical standards, compared with 67 percent of Trump-disapproving Republicans who think the same.
Republicans and supporters of the president are also substantially less likely to think the news media is an effective institution. Just 50 percent of Republicans say that criticism from journalists prevents politicians from engaging in improprieties. Eighty-two percent of Democrats say this. The link between the survey's skeptical responses and the president's rhetoric is evinced through another survey question. Republicans, whose party engages in a disproportionate share of rhetoric concerning the news media, are more deeply divided about journalism than any other profession. The Republican Party's staunch Trump supporters were 28 points more likely than the president's Republican detractors to say journalists have very low standards.
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