The Quinnipiac Poll does NOT show that Fox is the most trusted source of news

[onenote]

This is what the Quinnipiac poll found:



When asked, "Do you trust the journalistic coverage provided by FOX News," 20 percent of U.S. voters say "a great deal" and 35 percent say "somewhat." Scores for other networks are:

NBC News - 14 percent "a great deal" and 46 percent "somewhat;"
ABC News - 14 percent "a great deal" and 50 percent "somewhat;"
CBS News - 14 percent "a great deal" and 50 percent "somewhat;"
MSNBC - 11 percent "a great deal" and 41 percent "somewhat;"
CNN - 18 percent "a great deal" and 43 percent "somewhat."

The big winner is local television news, trusted by 19 percent of voters "a great deal" and by 52 percent "somewhat."

So while a higher percentage of the voters polled trusted Fox "a great deal", when the "great deal" and "somewhat" numbers are combined, it turns out that Fox has the trust of 55 percent of the voters, below the 61 percent for CNN and 60 percent for NBC and essentially tied with ABC and CBS. And when you look at the "trust not at all" and "trust not so much" --Fox, at 40 percent, finishes tied with MSNBC for the highest distrust result (with Fox having a higher "not at all" score than any network.)

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us03092015_Umepxt98.pdf


Local news has nearly the same "great deal" of trust score as Fox and overall has a 71 percent trust level, far above the networks.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. dear god this means half of america is unaware that fox lies and misleads constantly

and is not in the news business but is in the propaganda business

sad day

[valerief]

3. Hey, that's what the oligarchs pay for. nt

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. Just picture that living room, Mr. & Mrs. racist dumbfuck watching FOX NEWS

They have those tv dinner trays we used when we were kids.

On their plates is 3000 calories of all kind of bad, fatty foods.

They are shoveling it while nodding their heads with Oreilly, who is lying to them about some friends of his from Pluto...

Jesus, idiocracy

[valerief]

5. You forgot the farts and cigarette stench from overflowing ashtrays. nt

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. LOL part of me feels bad to make fun of them, seriously...but they have gone too far

I no longer have any sympathy for them

[valerief]

7. My brother is one of them. He needs help now, but I can't bring myself

to help him. He's "kill Obama" and "N-word" insane. Came from decades of driving a truck and listening to RW hate radio.

[Johonny]

8. To be fair

the vast majority of society only watches 24/7 news when something big happens. If a big hurricane strikes, or the Boston Marathon shootings. In that case in popping big stories most of these places are about the same in their coverage. I don't think most people watch the entertainment part of FOX. I think most people would agree FOX is somewhat trustworthy about breaking news of actual events like a hurricane making landfall. It just so happens for the majority of Americans those events are the only time they watch the news. Which you could argue isn't a bad thing as 99% of 24/7 news is information you don't need.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

10. Yeah, you are right, we know that because the highest rated show on Fox not news is Oreilly

and he has less than 2 million viewers I think

[Fred Sanders]

2. The poll is horribly skewed. "Trust" and "journalistic" do not belong in the same sentence as "Fox".

[Hutzpa]

9. Question: Why is Foxs still referred to as News Network when they claimed to be an

entertainment network?

[onenote]

13. That is an Internet myth.

Indeed, Fox would have no incentive to ever characterize their channel as entertainment programming. Why? Because the "equal opportunities" (also known, somewhat inaccurately, as the equal time rule) applies to entertainment programming but not to newscasts and news interview programming. It's why the Tonight Show argued (and, to most people's amazement, won) that when Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the show during his election campaign, it was a "news interview" exempt from the equal time rule.

I'm not defending anything Fox does. I certainly would never watch the channel. But spreading Internet myths for which there is no substantiation and that make no sense as a business or legal matter doesn't seem like a particularly smart strategy.

[former9thward]

11. Local news is high because the stories they report

are not exactly earth shaking. Other than local crime they are mainly feel good stories with no political content.

[Politicalboi]

12. Faux Noise and National Enquirer

We report, you DECIDE. That saves their ass. You decide if it's true or not.

[Deertoil]

14. Well, the percentage for all others combined far outweigh fox.

Which makes them actually look weak in this poll.

[Scuba]

15. I don't trust any of them.