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.
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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.
How anyone could trust anything they see on TV is beyond me.
Katie Couric Admits Liberal Bias: http://tinyurl.com/ydaw6nc
Fox News Bias?: http://tinyurl.com/n4cqms
Two kinds of people, not two kinds of parties. 1. People who do not want the responsibility for their ideas or ideals and need to hear dogma from authoritative sources. 2. People trying to work things out for themselves that mistrust authoritative sources.
Obviously free thinkers won’t all go to the same sources, just as the sheeple have the obsessive need to go to the approved source for information.
It doesn’t reflect a partisan political truth, just a basic human social truth.
What they didn’t state was the sample size, which is the number of people polled. In this case it was 12.
22, Amodedoma, We are all inherently biased even when we try to be objective some of our own personal biases come through. I personally don’t have any faith in objective news casting. I think Fox News if nothing else tries harder to be a devil’s advocate when a dissenting opinion is needed.
That being said, I prefer to get my news from overtly biased sources and then come to my own conclusions.
23, Rabble Rouser, Funny. But the survey does state it is of 1,151 registered voters.
I agree with Dvorak, FOXnews is actually run by the Democrats as a “dis-information” service. The more FOXnews looks crazy, the more it makes the “lefty news” look normal.
This also proves that most americans don’t want real news.
#25 BigBoyBC
‘FOXnews is actually run by the Democrats as a “dis-information” service. ‘
The article is about fox being the ‘most trusted news source’. So how does yours or Dvoraks explanation work – as apparently ‘The more FOXnews looks crazy,’ the more trusted it is.
And therefore how is that in the Democrats interest, hmmm?
Please. Engage. Brain.
Go ahead, ask yourself who watches TV to get their news anymore? Chances are if you’re reading this you’re not one of them. From time to time I watch Fox news, to the point where I start feeling like shouting at the TV, or CNN till it nearly puts me to sleep, then I switch it back to History or National Geographic.
#20 Howard said it before I could.
Anyway, the “news” on TV is no more about reality than American Idol is. On any commercial channel.
“A new poll asking Americans”
–lets do the math–
Well only 1151 of you were asked we are not saying how many of those refused to answer might have bees a survey of only10 for all we know. No mention of the demographic just that they were registered voters. What neighborhoods what percentage of them were Republicans, Democrats, Independents, skin heads.. ect ? Was Dick Cheney one of the 10?
74% of Republicans are saying they trust the right leaning Fox network.
None of the so-called left leaning sites are any where near that high among Democrats
It’s the Republicans marching in lockstep could have skewed this small sample; this sounds like kind of pseudo facts only Fox would broadcast.
Take a statistics class fools. This one’s for the sheep
#26 hit it on the head. People (sheeple) want to be entertained and fed with with “prepackaged opinions”.
No thinking neccessary, just repeat what you heard on Fox and pretend your “up to date”.
sorry for all the typos
#27 freddybobs68k
unexpected side effect
#33 BigBoyBC
‘unexpected side effect’
So assuming it’s true (which it isn’t) presumably they are not going to that anymore – because it’s working in the opposite way as expected.
Therefor even if it was true (which it wasn’t and isn’t) it wont be anymore.
ROFLMAO
Most trusted!? That’s like trusting the “doctor” from Philip Morris to tell you if smoking caused your cancer. LOL
It’s fun to watch the libtards lose their minds. First they lose Air “Steal Money From Poor Inner City Kids” America, now this.
What I found amusing is anybody even classifying Fox as a news station when it is obvious that their the whole point of existence is to get Republican candidates elected. Fox does not even cover topics not related to that goal. Honestly, I can find out more items happening around the world if I watch CCTV news from China.
Without having read the previous comments, …
This is more an indication of the political divide than worth or veracity of the news outlet.
I fully expect the right wing nuts to be slamming all except for FOX. I remember a poll a while back showing FOX viewers to be the least educated and CNN to have the highest education.
#1
University of Maryland researchers studied the public’s belief in three false claims — that Iraq possessed WMD
Not a false claim. Iraq possessed chemical weapons. http://globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090427_8248.php
that Iraq was involved in 9/11
When was that ever claimed? What was actually claimed is that Iraq was part of the larger war on terror.
and that there was international support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Again, not a false claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq.
The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news.
More like the surveyors misperceptions.
More on chemical weapons:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html