Punch line: A poll finds that 49 percent of Americans trust Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.
Note: the polling organization PPP is the one that hit Scott Brown’s election margin on the button.
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From Politico: Poll says Fox most trusted name in news, 1/27/10
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 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.
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 35 percent or less 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.
Full article:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32039.html
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In a separate WSJ/NBC survey, almost 1 in 4 of all registered voters get most of their political information from Fox.
That compares to 37% for the big 3 networks combined, and 18% for CNN. Only 8% rely on MSNBC (whew !)
I guess the 12% “none of these” track to Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert. (Yipes.)
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