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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Fox leads for trust

Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.

Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.

CNN does next best at a 39/41 spread, followed by NBC at 35/44, CBS at 32/46, and ABC at 31/46.

Predictably there is a lot of political polarization in which outlets people trust. 74% of Republicans trust Fox News, but no more than 23% trust any of the other four sources. We already knew that conservatives don't trust the mainstream media but this data is a good prism into just how deep that distrust runs.

For Democrats the numbers are a complete opposite- a majority trust all of ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC while only 30% have faith in Fox News. Continuing the trend in our polling over the last few months that independents hate everything, a plurality of them distrust all five outlets we looked at.

More summary on poll results. . .

Full results of the poll

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Thanks to VH for bring this. :)

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No contest. We the People know who reports the truth.

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"These numbers suggest quite a shift in what Americans want from their news. A generation ago Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in the country because of his neutrality. Now people trust Fox the most precisely because of its lack of neutrality. It says a lot about where journalism is headed."

Umm, where in the poll did it show that?  Seems to me this is a case of the figures don't lie, but the liars figure.

What kind of outfit are these pollsters to put such a spin on the numbers because they DIDN'T come out the way they wanted?

Good poll....rubbish commentary.

BTW, Cronkite was disgusted over the news media coverage of the 2008 primaries and GE coverage.


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Yep!!  Good poll, lousy summary by PPP.

Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.

What makes them "major tv news" if most Americans do not watch them anyways??


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