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I am sad for this country after hearing this. *NM* Aisha Send a noteboard - 27/01/2010 01:45:18 AM
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.
Aisha - formerly known as randschicka
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Fox is most trusted name in news - 27/01/2010 12:11:15 AM 581 Views
Good thing reality is chosen through consensus. *NM* - 27/01/2010 12:17:17 AM 84 Views
umm it is survey on trust - 27/01/2010 12:47:04 AM 189 Views
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 84 Views
do you have any real evidience that Fox is less acurate? - 27/01/2010 01:28:22 AM 173 Views
Does the poll suggest otherwise? - 27/01/2010 02:32:14 AM 160 Views
well... - 27/01/2010 12:37:40 AM 165 Views
Good for Fox. - 27/01/2010 12:38:39 AM 199 Views
Not really that surprising - 27/01/2010 01:00:52 AM 225 Views
Well, I did say it was remarkable particularly for foreigners. - 27/01/2010 01:58:43 AM 222 Views
I don't think their bias is their problem - 27/01/2010 02:57:33 AM 271 Views
I've always liked ABC's World News Tonight. - 27/01/2010 03:44:59 AM 165 Views
Jim Lehrer, definetly *NM* - 27/01/2010 04:11:17 AM 92 Views
That would be my most trusted TV news source. - 27/01/2010 07:22:51 AM 150 Views
I don't watch much PBS news - 27/01/2010 02:04:12 PM 156 Views
Yes, but The NewsHour has been criticized for being too conservative. *NM* - 27/01/2010 07:01:32 PM 184 Views
well there are people who think Nancy Pelosi is to conserative *NM* - 27/01/2010 08:13:56 PM 123 Views
Re: Not really that surprising - 27/01/2010 06:18:34 PM 159 Views
I am sad for this country after hearing this. *NM* - 27/01/2010 01:45:18 AM 178 Views
Re: Fox is most trusted name in news - 27/01/2010 02:51:04 AM 254 Views
Precisely. *NM* - 27/01/2010 11:26:15 AM 88 Views
A generation ago, the only news channel on TV was CNN. - 27/01/2010 06:20:07 PM 152 Views
Hmmm....now here's the question: - 27/01/2010 03:10:02 AM 173 Views
PPP has a poor record - 27/01/2010 05:01:57 AM 167 Views
And CNN is SECOND?!!! What a badly broken poll.... - 27/01/2010 07:16:09 AM 154 Views
It would be interesting to see how that breaks down by party - 27/01/2010 12:09:51 PM 168 Views
the article does break it down by party - 27/01/2010 02:06:50 PM 163 Views
Only for FOX, which makes trying to analyse it impossible - 27/01/2010 02:51:46 PM 158 Views
here is a link to the full results - 27/01/2010 03:02:50 PM 225 Views
So the parties are pretty much going each way - 27/01/2010 04:19:59 PM 165 Views
Re: So the parties are pretty much going each way - 27/01/2010 04:36:08 PM 149 Views
I guess it makes sense - 27/01/2010 11:33:25 PM 154 Views
It does - 28/01/2010 12:09:14 PM 153 Views
They also treat them like a single group which I find ironic - 30/01/2010 05:40:28 PM 155 Views
I personally think both sides are wrong - 27/01/2010 04:40:36 PM 146 Views
Besides the fact who wins or loses, it's a very sad state of affairs for democracy... - 27/01/2010 01:15:34 PM 152 Views
Skepticism is usually a good sign in a democracy - 27/01/2010 02:18:58 PM 195 Views
Re: Skepticism is usually a good sign in a democracy - 28/01/2010 03:42:55 AM 156 Views
Well, at least Fox is better than the BBC - 27/01/2010 01:43:32 PM 157 Views
I'm fairly certain you don't really mean that... - 27/01/2010 05:33:47 PM 172 Views
One does wonder. - 27/01/2010 05:52:30 PM 176 Views
Re: One does wonder. - 28/01/2010 04:28:47 AM 159 Views
Re: One does wonder. - 28/01/2010 12:12:48 PM 151 Views
haha you got me. Though I do mean it. - 30/01/2010 12:36:03 AM 159 Views
Well, that's me unsurprised. - 27/01/2010 02:23:16 PM 176 Views
Re: Well, that's me unsurprised. - 27/01/2010 02:31:57 PM 158 Views
Re: Well, that's me unsurprised. - 27/01/2010 02:53:04 PM 156 Views
It was the most watched cable channel last week - 27/01/2010 03:08:36 PM 158 Views
You can't offend me by saying that. - 27/01/2010 03:23:26 PM 138 Views
I know - 27/01/2010 04:23:18 PM 167 Views
I almost said something earlier. - 27/01/2010 06:34:18 PM 130 Views
Was the poll done in a trailerpark where everyone was their own uncle? - 27/01/2010 06:59:01 PM 183 Views
I think the same thing everytime I see European TV - 27/01/2010 08:13:13 PM 135 Views
Re: Was the poll done in a trailerpark where everyone was their own uncle? - 28/01/2010 03:49:10 AM 128 Views
That's like saying so-and-so won a Grammy. - 27/01/2010 07:39:54 PM 128 Views
That's like going a high security prison for a visit - 28/01/2010 03:38:45 AM 142 Views
telephone polls are no longer an accurate representation of popular opinion - 28/01/2010 04:12:52 AM 123 Views
I verbally abuse people who call to poll me. I'm going to keep doing it. - 28/01/2010 04:21:20 AM 221 Views
funny how people suddenly dismiss polls when they say something they don't like - 28/01/2010 05:57:10 AM 149 Views
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 150 Views
I there is nothing wrong with questioning what a poll tells us - 28/01/2010 02:02:29 PM 145 Views
Those where the only type of replies I saw though - 28/01/2010 02:24:55 PM 136 Views
I made it a comment to main thread for a reason - 28/01/2010 04:22:14 PM 137 Views
Isaac, not Issac - 30/01/2010 07:10:20 AM 140 Views
Bah, I only have your word for that being how your spell your name - 01/02/2010 01:08:24 PM 251 Views
It's pretty much the only Anglic spelling of it - 01/02/2010 02:15:45 PM 180 Views
I would have complained about the telephony regardless of the results - 28/01/2010 01:55:03 PM 132 Views
I've pretty much stopped watching news on TV - 29/01/2010 04:18:44 PM 136 Views

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