(Philip Bump/The Washington Post)(We noted last week that Fox’s audience isn’t as heavily Republican as you might think.) Since May 1, 2017, shortly before Mueller was appointed, Fox has mentioned Mueller about half as frequently as CNN and about a third as much as MSNBC. Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity have been explicit about driving a narrative of distrust about Mueller and his investigation, claiming bias rooted in the earliest days of the Russia investigation. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post)The differences between Democratic viewers and CNN viewers on these questions are not similarly significant. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post)On those questions, Republicans and Fox News viewers were broadly in line.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 19:33 UTC