Gallup’s not-so-surprising poll finds that media trust depends on which side of the fence you’re on. Some 84 percent of Americans believe the news media has a critical role to play in a democracy, but nearly 70 percent of Republicans ranked the media unfavorably, compared to 54 percent of Democrats.
Forty percent of Republicans say that negative stories about conservative politicians are “always” fake news. So, in this case, “fake” is not a reflection of veracity but rather just another partisan position.
See the Knight Center and Columbia Journalism Review articles.