Guess which network is the “most trusted name in news”? Hint: it ain’t MSNBC or CNN

fox-news-logoSomeone wipe up after the latest thing to cause liberal/progressives heads to explode. According to even left wing biased PPP polling, Fox News is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.The PPP poll which was a nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters on Jan. 18-19 found that 49% of Americans trusted Fox News. That next closest network was 10% points lower than that. As far as the distrust factor, 37% of those polled didn’t trust Fox News, which BTW was also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded. Politico has more stats from the poll:

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.

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January 27, 2010 · Filed Under Fox News


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