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Fox the most popular news source? But, also the most distrusted...
mattradd 40 Reviews 5691 reads
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I found the break down between Republicans, Democrats and Independents, in the second to the last paragraph to be the most enlightening portion of the study.

-- Modified on 1/20/2011 1:19:24 PM

Related Link: http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/01/our-second-annual-tv-news-trust-poll.html

Priapus531415 reads

catering to paranoid, gullible,uneducated, inbred trailer
trash, a natural demographic for fatso Roger Ailes of "Faux News" to cater to-----:)





-- Modified on 1/20/2011 1:44:34 PM

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dncphil1357 reads


A New Era of Civility opens with a Dem calling GOP Nazis and now Fox caters to " paranoid, gullible,uneducated, inbred trailer trash, a natural demographic for fatso Roger Ailes of Faux News'

Yeah, the right sure is nasty it its rhetoric.  Look in a mirror.  

And this is just a week after the NY Times, the LA Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN made up a story about how nutso boy in AZ was a product of the right wing rhetoric.

Nope, no catering to brain-dead, hostile, knuckle-dragging, knee-jerk audiences there.  

Challenge, in the past year, what story from "Faux News" was as distorted as Az Psycho boy?





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St. Croix1321 reads

Most of my available viewing is ESPN and CNBC. Sports and business, the rest is bullshit.

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Snowman391291 reads

It was also MORE TRUSTED than any other news network listed...

I did find it funny that MSNBC was not even listed. Guess that is what happens when nobody watches you ;-)

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Priapus531653 reads

whereas the 3 network news outlets bring in a combined total of 22 million.

As I stated earlier, "trailer trash"------

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BigPapasan2167 reads

...'slack-jawed droolers' who gobble up everything Hannity and Beck say and regurgitate it as if it were true.

But the left does it too. There is a dearth of critical thinking today.  Bill Maher calls people 'stupid' while the mainstream media uses the term 'low-information voters' - which is basically the same thing.

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Snowman39788 reads

You talk about people being droolers, and then quote someone like Maher, who has 0 credibility...

Man, you just made yourself look like a drooler

HA HA HA ;-)

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Snowman392278 reads

You can let me know who won...

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mattradd1545 reads

how much Fox went from trusted to distrusted. :)

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Snowman391464 reads

Talk about your trust numbers going into the shitter :-)

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StatisticalAnalysis2529 reads

The Democrats will lose many more seats in  2012.
   The numbers are not in their favor.
  More Demcocrats up for re election
      Obama will be re elected

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anonymousfun1350 reads

What is your point? Pretty much happens in a democracy, doesn't it? Single party in power all the time, let's say like in Egypt or Tunisia is called something else.

Both parties suck.

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Yes_Indeed820 reads

Roughly half the print article was about a negative spin on FOX with no mention at all to the result (I'll avoid using the term "fact" for the moment) that FOX was the SECOND MOST trusted overall and the SECOND MOST trusted among Independents.

Also of note is the fact that the questions were stated as "Do you trust ABC News?, FOX News?", etc while the PBS question left off the term NEWS, i.e. "Do you Trust PBS?" thus not discounting the possibility that at least some were thinking of "This Old House", etc.

On a positive note, it DID help to affirm that self described Libs are still less than 20% of the population.

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anonymousfun1343 reads

Every article that is against right wing has an agenda. Is that right. You are in the No Spin zone of Faux News, correct?

Where did you get the idea independents of second most trusted among independents. I am an independent I don't watch the crap Faux put out as news.



Posted By: Yes_Indeed
Roughly half the print article was about a negative spin on FOX with no mention at all to the result (I'll avoid using the term "fact" for the moment) that FOX was the SECOND MOST trusted overall and the SECOND MOST trusted among Independents.

Also of note is the fact that the questions were stated as "Do you trust ABC News?, FOX News?", etc while the PBS question left off the term NEWS, i.e. "Do you Trust PBS?" thus not discounting the possibility that at least some were thinking of "This Old House", etc.

On a positive note, it DID help to affirm that self described Libs are still less than 20% of the population.

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Yes_Indeed2107 reads

I will cut you some slack here since English is clearly your second language and simply assume you have not yet learned the definition of "agenda".

Regarding your second point that lives somewhere inside this quote, "Where did you get the idea independents of second most trusted among independents.", I assume you did not read the following quote from the article’s next to last paragraph:

"For independents 44% trust PBS, 36% Fox, 34% CNN, 33% NBC, 27% CBS, and 26% ABC."

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anonymousfun1021 reads

to prove something else. How does that logic work.

Still don't know the meaning of agenda, care explain?

Posted By: Yes_Indeed
I will cut you some slack here since English is clearly your second language and simply assume you have not yet learned the definition of "agenda".

Regarding your second point that lives somewhere inside this quote, "Where did you get the idea independents of second most trusted among independents.", I assume you did not read the following quote from the article’s next to last paragraph:

"For independents 44% trust PBS, 36% Fox, 34% CNN, 33% NBC, 27% CBS, and 26% ABC."

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Yes_Indeed1558 reads

I did question a probable slant of the poll because they left off the word "News" when asking about PBS. That does not "debunk" the entire poll it simply makes me ask questions.

As far as me using the numbers, regardless the validity of some of the poll the spread on the Liberal/Conservative question was too wide and too close to matching other polls to discount.

I DID try to debunk the OP linked article which was using the poll for it's own purposes.

Don't always take things at face value because almost everyone has an agenda. Agenda? Oh yea. I'm not your personal dictionary.

But a nice try deflection by attacking me and my perceived agenda rather than dealing with the facts. Gee, I bet you know what it means after all.

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charlie4451126 reads

but trust is a different subject. You can trust the media to record events that they claim to be "news". Most do a good job of it. The problem is the "news" is not necessarily news but news production. The primary reason for news shows to exist is profit. With profit as the motive for news production, news content can be almost anything that will draw a huge following.

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jerseyflyer1555 reads

viewers. And trust is another thing. I stopped trusting news reporting when Lowell Thomas and Edgar R. Murrow died. Walter Cronkite was the first of the news 'agenda' reporters. He reported what he thought we should hear, and his version of it. Yet, he was the most 'trusted man on TV news'. Uncle Walter was a fucking liar. And news reporting has continued it's downhill slide ever since, I don't care what channel it's on.

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joleneineugene1393 reads

News is on for the sake of the advertisers who want to sell us their product. Same w/ newspapers and magazines. They wouldn't exist if not for the advertisers. Same w/ every show you and I watch during any particular day. Even PBS advertises ("The following is brought to you by XXX and by XXX and by the XXX foundation.").

As the old saying goes, nothing happens until something gets sold (whether it's an idea, a product or a service).

Related Link: Jolene in Eugene

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Fair_Use2021 reads

Fox is PBS for the other half of politics.  People don't trust any news source.  People watch or listen or read the news for opinions about the news.  Not for simply reporting the news.  There is no audience for that anymore.  That ship sailed a long time ago.  But we can go on pretending.

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squeegieboypriapus531291 reads

I would never deprive myself of the left's comedic reporting.

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Priapus532054 reads

Chickenshit alias strikes again !------;)



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charlie4451032 reads

It makes you wonder don't it?

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willywonka4u1489 reads

Who wudda thunk it!

Related Link: Fox News host can't count. Worth a chuckle.

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