Poll Finds Americans Consider Fox Most Trusted News Network…

[Busybody]

Poll Finds Americans Consider Fox Most Trusted News Network…




Via Politico


Fox News has the most trusted network and cable news coverage in the United States, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. But network TV is much less trustworthy than it was in the days of Walter Cronkite, American voters say.

In comparison rankings, 29 percent responded that they trust Fox News the most. CNN follows with 22 percent, CBS News and NBC News are at 10 percent, ABC News at 8 percent and MSNBC at 7 percent.

Asked whether they trust the journalistic coverage of each network, 20 percent said they do “a great deal” for Fox, and 35 percent said “somewhat.”

Comparing today’s programming with the heyday of network news, only 7 percent of those surveyed think the information presented now is more trustworthy, with 48 percent responding that it is less so and 35 percent answering that it is about the same.[…]

Forty-two percent of registered voters think NBC should allow Brian Williams to anchor “NBC Nightly News,” while 35 percent think they should not give him another chance after his suspension.

 

[DesEsseintes]

In entirely unrelated news, the largest literacy study ever mounted in American, involving some 19,000 participants, demonstrated disturbingly high level of functional illiteracy.

'The study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."'

I'd love to see the Venn diagram for that group and those who trust Fox. I bet it's virtually all overlap.

 

[Ishmael]

In entirely unrelated news, the largest literacy study ever mounted in American, involving some 19,000 participants, demonstrated disturbingly high level of functional illiteracy.

'The study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."'

I'd love to see the Venn diagram for that group and those who trust Fox. I bet it's virtually all overlap.

Given the state of our government run schools the only surprise in that information is that it's not worse.

But I'm going to clue you in on something right now, none of those illiterates watch FOX news. Hell, a huge cross section don't watch any news at all and a fairly large portion watch Univision.

So while your post was interesting it was unrelated to the OP.

Ishmael

 

[DesEsseintes]

Given the state of our government run schools the only surprise in that information is that it's not worse.

But I'm going to clue you in on something right now, none of those illiterates watch FOX news. Hell, a huge cross section don't watch any news at all and a fairly large portion watch Univision.

So while your post was interesting it was unrelated to the OP.

Ishmael

My God - thanks for the information. I had no idea things were that bad. I rather assumed Fox News viewers were the hillbilly, head-scratching, sister-baiting proles, but if there are whole sections of society below even them, the mind boggles. How do these people walk and breathe at the same time?

 

[Busybody]

My God - thanks for the information. I had no idea things were that bad. I rather assumed Fox News viewers were the hillbilly, head-scratching, sister-baiting proles, but if there are whole sections of society below even them, the mind boggles. How do these people walk and breathe at the same time?

Loon...

 

[Busybody]

If anyone is unable to discern

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Viewers.....cause they believe in made up stuff

 

[miles]

Loon...

Thanks for quoting him. I'd forgotten why he's on iggy.

 

[Que]

In entirely unrelated news, the largest literacy study ever mounted in American, involving some 19,000 participants, demonstrated disturbingly high level of functional illiteracy.

'The study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."'

I'd love to see the Venn diagram for that group and those who trust Fox. I bet it's virtually all overlap.

Actually, a similar study was done. Progressives like to quote it to suggest that fox-viewers are ill-informed, and because a lot of fox's demographic is conservative, therefore conservatives are ill-informed and fox is the cause of that.

Fox has the larges viewership of any cable news channel. Included in that is a subset of progressives. When you look at the actual metadata from the oft-cited study, the group that performed the most poorly and drug down the average was the progressive viewers.

All the study shows is what you can readily see from this board. Most people are ill informed and progressives more so than the norm. One of them will be along shortly to herp-derp, "Fox viewers are DUMMMB, so I am smart because I get all my news from an even less trusted source.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Thanks for quoting him. I'd forgotten why he's on iggy.

If you don't start playing nicely I'm going to cancel the weekly bouquet.

 

[miles]

Liberals get their information from Comedy Central and Entertainment Tonight.

 

[Ishmael]

My God - thanks for the information. I had no idea things were that bad. I rather assumed Fox News viewers were the hillbilly, head-scratching, sister-baiting proles, but if there are whole sections of society below even them, the mind boggles. How do these people walk and breathe at the same time?

Well according to the watchers of MSNBC you would be correct. They do try to portray themselves as the uber intellectual crowd. Then again, every government program they've managed to get enacted has been a failure so so much for the intellectual crowd.

Ishmael

 

[miles]

Well according to the watchers of MSNBC you would be correct. They do try to portray themselves as the uber intellectual crowd. l

They appeal to pseudo-intellectuals. Who else would watch a stooge like Al Sharpton?

 

[DesEsseintes]

Well according to the watchers of MSNBC you would be correct. They do try to portray themselves as the uber intellectual crowd. Then again, every government program they've managed to get enacted has been a failure so so much for the intellectual crowd.

Ishmael

I've never watched MSNBC either, and I'm quite prepared to believe it is equally wretched. I long for the good old 1930s BBC, which even Nazi Germany listened to because of its reputation for impartiality.

 

[Ishmael]

I've never watched MSNBC either, and I'm quite prepared to believe it is equally wretched. I long for the good old 1930s BBC, which even Nazi Germany listened to because of its reputation for impartiality.

My God, how old are you anyway?

In reality FOX news, the actual news broadcasts, are fairly even handed. Their commentary program line up is the same as all the other cable news channels, highly biased.

CNN lost their credibility when we found out that they were allowing foreign governments to censor their news presentations just so they could have a presence in the nation of interest. That wasn't just news bias, that was out and out corruption of the news.

Ishmael

 

[DesEsseintes]

My God, how old are you anyway?

In reality FOX news, the actual news broadcasts, are fairly even handed. Their commentary program line up is the same as all the other cable news channels, highly biased.

CNN lost their credibility when we found out that they were allowing foreign governments to censor their news presentations just so they could have a presence in the nation of interest. That wasn't just news bias, that was out and out corruption of the news.

Ishmael

Wow - I didn't know that. Was it China or Russia?

And I'm 36, going on 118.

 

[Busybody]

Yesterday it emerged that

Bee Williams quashed news that could have been damaging to

Hussein Obama

 

[miles]

Yesterday it emerged that

Bee Williams quashed news that could have been damaging to

Hussein Obama

He said some stories were "divisive." Facts are racist.

 

[Que]

I've never watched MSNBC either, and I'm quite prepared to believe it is equally wretched. I long for the good old 1930s BBC, which even Nazi Germany listened to because of its reputation for impartiality.

Journalism is on life support in the US. News shows were not really ever intended to be the primary source for people to inform themselves, we used to have newspapers. The television news has always been entertainment. The medium lends itself to visual imagery, not dry information. What is news is what they have pictures of. Period.

Most of those that speak derisively of Fox have never, or seldom watched the actual news programs. Most "abuses" they cite are from clearly styled as opinion and commentary programming. The other less trusted networks have taken bias to some pretty egregious extremes not by what they say, but what they choose not to cover.

These days for visual news, BBC America or the American audience version of Russian News are more like traditional journalism. Even Al Jazeera does a better job of at least covering relevant issues than MSNBC. I am not aiming for being hyperbolic there.

 

[Ishmael]

Wow - I didn't know that. Was it China or Russia?

And I'm 36, going on 118.

That information first emerged during the Desert Storm effort of the 1990's in Iraq and was confirmed by documentation obtained during the Iraqi Freedom effort. China has been mentioned but no concrete evidence has been produced as of yet. But considering the Chinese policy of "if you don't play our game, you don't play at all." regarding the media I don't think there's any doubt as to the Chinese exerting undue influence.

Ishmael

 

[Busybody]

Actually CNN admitted that they tailored news from Iraq shop as not to owns Saddam and lose access

 

[Busybody]

Re the BBC....during the first Iraq war...British troops adkef that the news from BBC be turned off

As the Beeb was on the side of Iraq and demoralized the troops

 

[miles]

Most of liberals' disdain for Fox news stems from them reporting news which is ignored or minimized by the old line media. In the mind of a liberal if a news story has merit it will be given the proper coverage by the networks and the NY Times, when the exact opposite is true.

 

[PayDay]

No one asked me:

Remember the Boston Bombing? Remember after the Boston Police Department 'found' the suspects by violating every Amendment they could find (like the 4th) and ran over the one brother and the caught the one with the marker in the boat with 100+ bullets and Obama said thanks to Putin for the info and the FBI said nothing and no one knew why that University cop got shot?

Well, the first thing I saw on Fox news was [paraphrased]: "Its' over. We got them. It's done. Let it go"

Yeah. Ok.

 

[Busybody]

No one asked me:



Well, the first thing I saw on Fox news was [paraphrased]: "Its' over. We got them. It's done. Let it go"

Yeah. Ok.

you are right.....no one asked you

and you made that up

 

[Busybody]

there is a reason SO MANY Distrust the so called media

they are insane

witness


Bush Derangement Syndrome: Telegraph Writer Blames George W. Bush For The Shortened Women’s Day …


womens day

Change the date and get an extra hour next year.

Via The Telegraph


International Women’s Day it’s the one day of the year when we can find common cause and celebrate the considerable and often overlooked achievements of females around the world.

The annual event sees millions of people celebrate the writers, educators and political figures making strides for women and girls today – though many wonder if a day is adequate.

Americans may therefore feel a bit short-changed when they discover that the International Women’s Day is in fact an hour shorter this year, all thanks to Daylight Savings Time.

At 2am the clocks skipped a full hour, resulting in the day’s festivities being a meagre 23 hours. Unlike Europe and much of the rest of the world the US changes its clocks in early March.

It may come as no surprise that a man is to blame for this debacle[…]

Former president George W. Bush compounded the problem when he signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, extending the policy by a full four weeks and thereby bringing the event under its provisions.

International Men’s Day 2015, however, will get the full 24-hours as clocks switch back on November 1st, a full 18 days before it is held.