FYI - PPP is a Democratic polling organization:
Poll: Fox is most trusted name in news
By: Andy Barr
January 26, 2010 05:35 PM EST
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 Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in his analysis of the poll. “But the media landscape has really changed, and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
The telephone poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
Poll: Fox is most trusted name in news
By: Andy Barr
January 26, 2010 05:35 PM EST
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 Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in his analysis of the poll. “But the media landscape has really changed, and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
The telephone poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
Aisha - formerly known as randschicka
Fox is most trusted name in news
- 27/01/2010 12:11:15 AM
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- 27/01/2010 12:11:15 AM
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Good thing reality is chosen through consensus. *NM*
- 27/01/2010 12:17:17 AM
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umm it is survey on trust
- 27/01/2010 12:47:04 AM
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Of course it's an accurate poll. But my point is that trust has nothing to do with accuracy. *NM*
- 27/01/2010 01:14:59 AM
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Good for Fox.
- 27/01/2010 12:38:39 AM
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Not really that surprising
- 27/01/2010 01:00:52 AM
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Well, I did say it was remarkable particularly for foreigners.
- 27/01/2010 01:58:43 AM
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- 27/01/2010 01:58:43 AM
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I don't think their bias is their problem
- 27/01/2010 02:57:33 AM
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I've always liked ABC's World News Tonight.
- 27/01/2010 03:44:59 AM
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I don't watch much PBS news
- 27/01/2010 02:04:12 PM
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Yes, but The NewsHour has been criticized for being too conservative.
*NM*
- 27/01/2010 07:01:32 PM
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*NM*
- 27/01/2010 07:01:32 PM
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well there are people who think Nancy Pelosi is to conserative *NM*
- 27/01/2010 08:13:56 PM
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Re: Not really that surprising
- 27/01/2010 06:18:34 PM
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That is why I chose what I am going to watch based on the show and not the network
- 27/01/2010 06:56:24 PM
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I am sad for this country after hearing this. *NM*
- 27/01/2010 01:45:18 AM
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It would be interesting to see how that breaks down by party
- 27/01/2010 12:09:51 PM
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the article does break it down by party
- 27/01/2010 02:06:50 PM
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Only for FOX, which makes trying to analyse it impossible
- 27/01/2010 02:51:46 PM
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here is a link to the full results
- 27/01/2010 03:02:50 PM
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So the parties are pretty much going each way
- 27/01/2010 04:19:59 PM
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Re: So the parties are pretty much going each way
- 27/01/2010 04:36:08 PM
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I guess it makes sense
- 27/01/2010 11:33:25 PM
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Besides the fact who wins or loses, it's a very sad state of affairs for democracy...
- 27/01/2010 01:15:34 PM
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Well, at least Fox is better than the BBC
- 27/01/2010 01:43:32 PM
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I'm fairly certain you don't really mean that...
- 27/01/2010 05:33:47 PM
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Well, that's me unsurprised.
- 27/01/2010 02:23:16 PM
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Re: Well, that's me unsurprised.
- 27/01/2010 02:31:57 PM
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I'm still friends with the crotchety old secretary who used to work with me.
- 27/01/2010 03:24:45 PM
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It was the most watched cable channel last week
- 27/01/2010 03:08:36 PM
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You can't offend me by saying that.
- 27/01/2010 03:23:26 PM
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Was the poll done in a trailerpark where everyone was their own uncle?
- 27/01/2010 06:59:01 PM
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Re: Was the poll done in a trailerpark where everyone was their own uncle?
- 28/01/2010 03:49:10 AM
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telephone polls are no longer an accurate representation of popular opinion
- 28/01/2010 04:12:52 AM
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I verbally abuse people who call to poll me. I'm going to keep doing it.
- 28/01/2010 04:21:20 AM
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funny how people suddenly dismiss polls when they say something they don't like
- 28/01/2010 05:57:10 AM
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Well, personally I never said anything about the poll being invalid.
- 28/01/2010 06:57:43 AM
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Funnily, the first person who did that is Issac who has seemed a right wing type to me.
- 28/01/2010 12:19:05 PM
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I there is nothing wrong with questioning what a poll tells us
- 28/01/2010 02:02:29 PM
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Isaac, not Issac
- 30/01/2010 07:10:20 AM
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- 30/01/2010 07:10:20 AM
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Bah, I only have your word for that being how your spell your name
- 01/02/2010 01:08:24 PM
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- 01/02/2010 01:08:24 PM
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I would have complained about the telephony regardless of the results
- 28/01/2010 01:55:03 PM
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