Congrats, Conservative Media: Even Your Fans Don’t Always Trust You

The main headline out of Pew Research Center’s latest study, “The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources,” seems pretty self-evident: Democratic or “leans Democratic” voters and their Republican counterparts gravitate toward different news outlets along that partisan divide.

Yes, we live in isolated news silos and echo chambers, nothing to see here, move along.

Look a little closer, though, and another trend line reveals that conservatives tend to cast a narrower net in terms of where they get news and information...