Poll: Fox Is The Most Trusted Name In TV News

Via TPM:

A new national survey from Public Policy Polling (D) finds an amazing result: The most trusted name in TV news, the only one that more Americans trust than distrust, is...Fox!

Respondents were asked whether they did or did trust the various news outlets. Fox turned out to be the only one with a positive score, at 49% yes to 37% no. CNN was at 39%-41%, NBC 35%-44%, CBS 32%-46%, and ABC 41%-46%. The pollster's analysis finds a high level of polarization, with 74% of Republicans trusting Fox, and no more than 23% of Republicans trusting anybody else. Smaller majorities of Democrats trust all the other outlets and distrust Fox. Independents register negative ratings for all the news outlets, but Fox comes the closest at 41%-44%.

"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 the polling memo. "But the media landscape has really changed and now they're turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear."

For those who are confused it might help explain peoples positions on... the stimulus: it didn't work (actually it did); health care is a government take over (it isn't and our health care system? terrible...); tax cuts pay for themselves (they don't); Obama created the deficit (next to none of it...); Social Security is bankrupt (if by "is" you mean paying out at 75% of benfits starting in 2042)... global warming... Tea Parties... Sarah Palin... Glen Beck.... W... invasion of Iraq... birthers... 

 

You get the drift.

 

Thats why Joe Klien was wrong to say americans are Too Dumb to Thrive after the recent CNN poll where 3 out of 4 Americans said the stimulus was wasted.  I just think we have a problem with getting accurate information out to people because entertainers on talk radio and tv have cornered the "news" market.

 

When people think entertainment is news you have a problem.

 

Jon Stewart did a great job of showing Fox is not even close to news and this latest CNN poll on the stimulus shows how much work the reality based community has to do.

 

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."  --George Orwell

 

Posted via email from Jim Nichols