Poll finds Americans trust Fox News more than any other network

By Raw Story
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 -- 5:10 pm

foxnewsalert Poll finds Americans trust Fox News more than any other network"The only one getting a positive review is Fox News."

An essay from a conservative media critic? A GOP blogger trumpeting the ratings of the allegedly "Fair and Balanced" news network?

Nope. A poll of 1,151 registered American voters, who were asked whether they trust each of the major television news networks. Ranking number one: Fox News Channel.

"49% of Americans say they trust Fox News to 37% who disagree," the poll's authors wrote. "Predictably there is a large party split on this with 74% of Republicans but only 30% of Democrats saying they trust the right leaning network."

"CNN does next best because it is the second most trusted of Democrats, Republicans, and independents. 39% say they trust it compared to 41% who do not, with 59% of Democrats, 33% of independents and 23% of Republicans saying it carries credibility with them."

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"The major networks all have the majority trust of Democrats but less than 20% from Republicans. NBC, perhaps because of the ideological bent of MSNBC, does the best among Democrats at 62%. Overall 35% of voters trust it to 44% who do not. CBS does the worst among Republicans, with 69% distrusting it. A plurality of independents express distrust of all five outlets we tested.

“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “But the media landscape has really changed and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”

Some, however, take issue with Public Policy Polling, noting that a member of the company who spoke to the press last year said they supported Obama's presidential run.

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  • Leigh
    Polls are worthless. Shotty statistics. The view of 1,151 people DOES NOT amount to the majority opinion of 300 million people. Does no one else understand that?
  • mbenjamin
    Isn't anyone going to comment on "The Raw Story's " basis for "creating " a headline like this one ? LOL ! How did they discover this " fact ? " .... that " Americans trust Fox more than any other network " Well, according to them, they took a poll .... and out of over 300 million Americans they polled 1,151 hmmm, so this is how they get their "facts." To even discuss anything after this is idiocy. How do people get away with printing garbage like this ? To begin with there isn't even an author's name on the article. Not Surprising .
  • mbenjamin
    LOL ! " A survey of 1,151 Americans " ..... this is their proof of legitimacy ? The publishers of this tabloid must think we are idiots ! Anyone who thinks that 1,151 is a realistic cross section of voters out of a population of more than 300 million is delusional at best.
  • dave
    i knew a large clump of americans were incrediblely naive,illerate,and just plain stupid. they voted for george w, didnt they, twice even.
  • jack
    All cable news networks suck. Technically they are opinion networks.
  • cb4168
    I have a problem with a poll of 1,151 people representing the entirety of the US, this fraction of the total population in no way represents the truth!
  • winski
    Good indicator of the IQ level of the respondents.
  • pneu
    Argh!!! Oh, the irony...
  • daman2012
    Keith O....you can stop stroking your thesaurus now!
  • cireeric67
    Haha, take that libs!
  • christoofar
    a nation of "sheeple" , are we.
    And since when did Fox "News" turn into an actual news outlet?
  • frankfurter
    The only stations I watch are Link TV and FSTV. All the others are suspect. Al Jazeera and Russian Times are also good news sources. The problem is that the media and politics have moved so far to the right that even moderate liberals are actually right wing.
  • rogueish
    Which is why Americans are the least informed most ignorant electorate in the western world. You poor bastards.
  • schlub
    It's really not enough to complain about the lies and hyperbole. It's not enough to realize that every story on there is framed to confirm a bunged up world view, or to poison a person's view of Democrats. That should all be common knowledge by now. It's sickening to me to realize how easily duped so many US citizens are. What would the rednecks do if they finally had the revelation that they were being lied to? (Probably try to rationalize it somehow.)
    IDIOTS! TURN OFF THE IDIOT BOX!!
  • mandy
    Sadly, My boyfriend and I broke up a month ago. yeah.. i'm young ,beautiful,lonely and still hurting.i need someone to love ....My friends told me about AGEMINGLE . C O M and i got curious about it.. they met their boyfriends there.,It is said that it's the best place to meet a older boyfriend or a younger girlfriend. .So i got a username AnnaBaby there in order to find a new boyfriend. is it wrong?
  • Night Nurse
    Given that the median age of Fox viewership is late middle aged to senior citizens, it makes sense. When I worked on the Alzheimer's unit the technique was to keep residents calm: it was called fantasy validation vs. reality orientation
  • DFW
    No wonder Republicans are against any improvements in Education (except for Christian Madrassas). Less literacy means more mindless unquestioning viewers of Fox "News." There were plenty of Soviets who believed "Pravda," which in the Soviet era was no more "pravda (truth)" than Fox is news today. But it's easy for the lazy to turn on the tube, watch O'Reilly and friends get angry (like their viewers already are--just read some of the right-wing posts on here: these are not happy, well-adjusted people), and say "yeah--damn libbruls."
  • nobody
    Dumb-a@@ people who make friends with their television and sit and talk to it all day and night are the same idiots who believe their teevee would never lie to them.
    A.K.A. fox news viewers.
  • Heyitzme
    Look at all the cartwheels and spinning you lefties are doing trying to deny the obvious with this poll: you are out of touch with mainstream America. People are tired of overtaxation, tired of the nanny state crap that's being pushed by the left, and tired of the socialistic "everyone should be paid the same" mentality that permeates the far left ideology. Get over yourselves. No one's buying what you're selling.

    Learn the value of personal responsibility. Get off your lazy asses and work for a living and stop whining about people who've busted their own asses and have become prosperous in the process. You're pathetic.
  • Ralph
    I think it should read-- "Anti-Americans".
  • duedah
    righties dont watch msnbc because they cant stand the TRUTH.
  • socratic
    I would guess that republicans still overwhelmingly depend on Fox for news and NEED for it to be trustworthy. Liberals tend to be more educated and technologically savvy and I think gather their news from a number of different sources labeled by conservatives as "liberal media". Whether it be the NyTimes, Post, BBC, Numerous Blogs, Democracy Now (the only media I truly trust for its freedom for corporate influence), NPr and so forth. We are beyond television, into a digital world that allows us to be more responsible for what we read and know. The average fox viewer, cannot digest multiple news sources that contradict their narrow obstructionist ideology.
  • turo62
    I don't see how anybody in their their right mind can listen to the truth twisters at fox news. It's big money right wing corporate propaganda.. see Jane Akre vs Fox news
  • The Fun Ghoul
    This makes sense... Because the majority of Americans are morons!
  • BlueEyedVideot
    Gee, looking at the overall results I'd say this poll is garbage as they way over-polled conservatives. Of course that's going to push Faux News up in the results.
  • Sam
    The population of the Divided States of North America is = 308,562,000.
    But this poll only polled roughly 1,100. How is 1,100 people an accurate sample of the views of 308+ million? And who did they poll? The polling company is in NC. It's almost as if someone is trying to brainwash people into thinking that Faux News is the best.
  • samfish
    Unbelievable. I just...don't understand how people in this country are so stupid. Do they really not remember the Bush years already??
  • Marco
    ...The truth hurts because the GOP can't stand to hear anything other than their own versions of reality.
  • Did they only interview war criminals and the mentally insane?
  • surgethis
    FOX NEWS is 100% Republican propaganda. If anybody trusts this then they are clearly trusting what they want to hear. Same people who follow the Christian faith ... they don't want reality. THey want to be held and petted and told they are right and others are wrong. Weak, faithless, fantasy addicts.
  • notvforme
    But what about those of us who have not watched Television since GWBush was first elected. I for one do not trust any of the news on the television no matter what channel.
  • Sam
    GWBush was never "first" elected to occupy the White House. Both the 2000 and 2004 "elections" were stolen. Someone is STILL talking about Bush being "elected" at this point in time? Sigh. Man, what short-term memory some people have.
  • For you 2 or 3 fools commenting on here about how Fox is the only one who tells the truth, did you notice how Fox said the Cubans were "absent" in the Haiti relief? Did you bother fact-checking them on that? Did you find that they were absolutely full of shit and standing by it? No, because you're lazy and you believe what you hear without checking for yourself if it's right. Stuff like this happens like clockwork there. People with their eyes open catch this stuff and are outraged that a so-called "news" channel would flat out make stuff up to prop up an ideology. That's why they are so hated by those of us who get it. Fox News Channel: We poison your brain, you nod along.
  • elmer fudd
    All those years of falling behind the rest of the world in our
    education has finally caught up to us. Fox news preaches
    to their flock, telling them what they need to know and how
    they should formulate their opinions. Pavlov's dog theory
    in action.........
  • grandlink
    Shows the dumbing down of the American people because few ever question the way they think about politics.
  • thelargekahoona
    Yes Amerikans are brainwashed fools. TV is nothing more than a controlled propaganda device which is controlled by all the major corporations. as long as the skirts are high and the talk is about Hollywood the people can be led like the sheep they are.
  • Ez4moi
    FOX News is far more interesting than the other networks. This accounts for its' popularity with viewers. A large number of liberals watch. Liberals are just not used to seeing conservatives get to voice their opinions. Generally speaking anything but monolithic agreement on the left drives modern liberals nuts. I well remember all the shows prior to FOX where there were two liberal guests, a liberal host, and one person who sometimes stated a conservative position when he was allowed to speak. Americans got tired of it. FOX's success is easily understood. Americans are fair minded.
  • metoo123
    PROPOGANDA is what you like watching and hearing. Good luck! I am always amazed at so called conservatives who elected a "conservative" for President twice and the man emptied the national treasury. Some conservative! But keep on believing that crap they are feeding you while they steal you all the way to the bank.
  • The far right big conservative mucky mucks must not only be amazed, but overcome with giddiness that every lie and distortion they fling against the wall sticks. They must also have contempt for their malleable base and bad backs from bending over for corporations who have used favorable legislation greedily, rather than investing in the US.
  • If any of you have ever wondered how people could not just choose, but, cheer for a government that would suppress them, this is part of that answer.
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