From the Michigan survey (final):
Figure 1: Expectations of future economic conditions for Democrats/lean Democratic (blue, left scale), for Independents (gray, left scale), Republicans/lean Republican (red, left scale); SF news sentiment index (teal, right scale). Source: U.Michigan, SF Fed.
Notice the disjuncture of trends with news and Republican/lean Republican expectations.
The folks at The Daily Show did a clever exposition of Fox News’s response to the recent decline in stock prices. Essentially, the more stocks fell, the more time spent on transgender athletes.
Republicans don’t just have their very own news outlets. They’ve been trained to distrust any news that leaks into their bubble from outside. You can spot the pattern pretty easily: spot legitimately news – salivate – scream “fake news!”