Fox News least trusted, with 46% of respondents saying they have no faith in what the cable network puts on TV
Public Policy Polling is out with its fourth annual survey of TV news viewers, and their research shows that PBS is the nation's most trusted TV news source, with 52% of the 800 respondents nationwide saying they trust the news content that the public broadcasting system puts on its air.
Meanwhile, Fox News has hit a record low among those surveyed. In 2010, the first year of the PPP poll, 49% of voters trusted FNC to 37% who did not. This year, 41% of voters trust it to 46% who do not.
Interestingly (although not surprisingly, at least to this writer), one's political persuasion tends to have more than a little impact on which news source viewers trust. “We continue to find that Democrats trust most TV news sources other than Fox, while Republicans don’t trust anything except Fox,” said Dean Debnam, president of PPP. “News preferences are very polarizing along party lines.”
Democrats put the most faith in PBS (+61 at 72/11), followed by NBC (+45 at 61/16), MSNBC (+39 at 58/19), CBS (+38 at 54/16), CNN (+36 at 57/21), ABC (+35 at 51/16), and Comedy Central (+10 at 38/28).
Out of the non-Fox channels, Republicans have the most faith in PBS at -21 (27/48), followed by NBC (-48 at 18/66), CNN (-49 at 17/66), ABC (-56 at 14/70), MSNBC (-56 at 12/68), CBS (-57 at 15/72), and Comedy Central (-58 at 8/66).
Democrats put the most faith in PBS (+61 at 72/11), followed by NBC (+45 at 61/16), MSNBC (+39 at 58/19), CBS (+38 at 54/16), CNN (+36 at 57/21), ABC (+35 at 51/16), and Comedy Central (+10 at 38/28).
Out of the non-Fox channels, Republicans have the most faith in PBS at -21 (27/48), followed by NBC (-48 at 18/66), CNN (-49 at 17/66), ABC (-56 at 14/70), MSNBC (-56 at 12/68), CBS (-57 at 15/72), and Comedy Central (-58 at 8/66).
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From the Wikipedia article on the Public Policy Polling firm: "PPP's polls have been described as 'Democratic-leaning' and 'accurate.' It is labeled as a Democratic firm because in its private client work, it conducts polls only for Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations."
I put more stock in the latter than I do the former, and so should everyone else. We need to quit thinking from the perspective of D and R and trust those who give us the best information - not simply those who hew to our point of view.
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