Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday. A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network. Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded. There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox – with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did. CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn’t trust CNN. Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC. Thirty-two percent of respondents said they trusted CBS, while 31 percent trusted ABC. Both CBS and ABC were not trusted by 46 percent of those polled. ‘A generation ago you would have expected […]
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Poll: Fox Is Most Trusted Name In News
Author: ANDY BARR
Source: Politico
Publication Date: 1/26/10 5:46 PM EST
Link: Poll: Fox Is Most Trusted Name In News
Source: Politico
Publication Date: 1/26/10 5:46 PM EST
Link: Poll: Fox Is Most Trusted Name In News
Stephan: When you realize that approximately 55 per cent of the American public (Pew Research) believes the world was created within the last 10,000 years with all species pretty much as they are today this does not seem so strange. There is a great darkness of willful ignorance creeping across the country like a toxic cloud, and this is just the latest data point on its spread.