Republicans far more negative than Democrats in their evaluations of the media % OFUS adults who say news organizations
Across a range of measures, Republicans are far more negative than Democrats in their assessments of the news media. In a February survey, more than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said news organizations don’t care about the people they report on (69%), are not professional (60%), are too critical of America (58%), hurt democracy (56%) and don’t care about how good of a job they do (54%). Democrats and Democratic leaners were far more positive than Republicans on all of these questions. The partisan divide in views of the news media extends to views of specific outlets, too, as a separate Center study found in January.
Republicans far more negative than Democrats in their evaluations of the media  | % OFUS adults who say news organizations  | Care about how  | Protect  | Stand up for  | Care about they the  | professional Are highly  | good of a job  | professional highly  | America  | people they  | democracy  | they do  | report on  | Dem/  | Lean Dem  | 60%  | Rep/ Rep  | 48  | 44  | Rep/ Lean Rep  | 39  | 32  | 28%  | 16  | 16  | 14  | 13  | 16  | 20  | 21  | 23%  | 40  | 54%  | 56  | 58  | 60  | 69  | Don't care about  | Are not  | Hurt  | Are too critical of Don't care about  | how good they of a  | professional  | democracy  | America  | the people they  | job good they do  | report on  | NEITHER  | APPLIES  | 17% 17%  | 30  | 23  | 35  | 28  | 44  | 27  | 17  | 27  | Note Respondents who did not give an answer not shown  | Source Survey of U.S adults conducted Feb 18 March 2. 2020.  | Americans See Skepticism of News Media as Healthy, Say Public Trust in the Institution can improve  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 