POLL: Who is America’s most trusted newscaster?

By Thursday July 23, 2009

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What does this tell you?



44 Comments
  1. Amsterdamned says:
    7/23/2009 at 12:43 pm

    Jon Stewart … less funny these days but he’s mostly honest, whereas the others are just paid liars and manipulators.

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  2. jbenson2 says:
    7/23/2009 at 12:46 pm

    What the chart shows is no one trusts a liar.

    And the biggest mass media anchors have gone past biased-reporting to blatant-lies.

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  3. RTaylor says:
    7/23/2009 at 12:47 pm

    So called talent sitting in front of a TelePrompTer reading corporate approved copy.
    “I’m mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore!”

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  4. Benjamin says:
    7/23/2009 at 1:07 pm

    It’s sad that a comedian got a plurality of the vote.

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  5. ridin the short bus says:
    7/23/2009 at 1:24 pm

    #24 Got it Right, I was going to say this, then decided to read thru all the blog posts first and I was about to give up, then lastly, I see that their is someone left in america that has a little common sense… what to hell is a commedian doing on the list..if we dont have anyone to chose from with any street cred, then dont ask the question. America has really become the land of the sheeple… I can guess that half of the people polled could not find Canada on the map, thier has to be some sort of Knowledge test or Intelligence test before people can be asked to participate… its the masses being entertained while the crooks get away with everything… I cant believe my eyes!!! Nothing to see here mates..

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  6. Ranger007 says:
    7/23/2009 at 1:32 pm

    #19 said “What makes Mr. Stewart so trustful is that he calls people on their shit. He doesn’t just read a press release and call it news.”

    I don’t watch him that often, but the few times I have (most noticeably the night Cramer was on) Stewart has been prepared for just about anything said. He just wouldn’t let the BS slide on past.

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  7. STEVE says:
    7/23/2009 at 1:36 pm

    CALLING STEWART A COMEDIAN IS A BIT OF A STRETCH.

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  8. qb says:
    7/23/2009 at 2:05 pm

    Well, it isn’t Brian Kilmeade from Fox & Friends:

    “See, the problem is, the Swedes have pure genes… Because they marry other Swedes. Because that’s the rule. Finland — Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody… So, we’ll marry Italians and Irish.”

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  9. Whama-Bama says:
    7/23/2009 at 2:10 pm

    My vote would go to Bill O’Reilly. Trys to see both sides and gives each a voice without being mean and insulting.

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  10. proberge says:
    7/23/2009 at 2:35 pm

    Stewart is very smart and does not seem to have been bought and paid for like the others.

    So, yes, I trust him more than any other puppets.

    It’s just too bad he is on the Comedy channel.

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  11. Sister Mary Handgrenade of Quiet Reflection says:
    7/23/2009 at 4:35 pm

    Does this mean I can trust them when I’m passed out drunk? Could I trust them with the collection plate? Choir boys??

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  12. gun26 says:
    7/23/2009 at 4:55 pm

    Stewart (and Colbert) and their fake news rank so high in people’s esteem because they’re funny, and because mocking the news and news media serves to get at larger truths about the world we’ve made for ourselves. News is just entertainment now, and is fully expected to rake in revenue for the network in the same way entertainment programming is.

    In Walter Cronkite’s day (and Huntley-Brinkley and Howard K. Smith’s) that wasn’t the case. Networks were highly profitable and could afford to lavish money on large and energetic news divisions. CBS styled itself the “Tiffany network” because of their news operation’s, and Cronkite’s, reputations.

    Today’s news coverage is mostly shallow gossip, about such weighty matters as Jon and Kate and the whereabouts of Michael Jackson’s body. Give me the fake news over “real” news any day.

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  13. pcsmith says:
    7/23/2009 at 6:49 pm

    Jon Stewart is as much of a newscaster as Will Rodgers was.

    I think of him as the guy who has to whack the TV set when the horizontal gets out of sync.

    I vote for Carl Kasell of NPR.

    He may only read 8 minutes of news each hour [seven at the top of the hour{four in the big cities} and one minute at twenty after], but he writes what he reads.

    In Canada, I like Dzintars Cers just for his name.

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  14. deowll says:
    7/23/2009 at 8:42 pm

    The most watched news show in America is the Factor. Compared to that these other people are in fifth place. I can’t be sure if the people watching trust him or not but they are still watching.

    I don’t trust any of them. I don’t do that much any more.

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  15. Buzz says:
    7/23/2009 at 11:05 pm

    It tells me that a news presenter who is smart enough to see the tremendous ironies that are present in many stories will get people’s trust.

    Nobody else at the highest levels of newscasting is connecting the dots.

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  16. ECA says:
    7/24/2009 at 1:58 am

    link please, we can turn this around….
    LINK PLEASE

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  17. Tim Yates says:
    7/24/2009 at 5:32 am

    If you look at the next Poll it shows that BING is America’s favorite search engine. 58% for BING, 38% for Google.

    I think that speaks volumes for all Time polls.

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  18. Toxic Asshead says:
    7/24/2009 at 9:46 am

    TIME itself is a disaster. Why trust any of it’s pools?

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  19. brendal says:
    7/24/2009 at 10:17 am

    Definitely Obama, as he runs the media now.

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  20. James Hill - The Great One says:
    7/24/2009 at 10:59 am

    All things considered, I bet more people get their news from Leo Laporte than anyone on that list.

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