Tommy, it must have killed you to write this piece!
lol

Did you at least get drunk, or have some other mind-altering substance to help you through it?

And NBC at 1% – Now that there’s what you call Serendipity!

Aside from what these research polls say, the key point is that FNC exists…and Libs can do nothing about it without getting steamrolled by the hypocrisy of their never-ending drumbeat about ‘fairness.’

Their credibility went up slightly when they canned Glenn Beck, the weeping prophet.

Oh, that was 4%.

Take a look at the spread between FOX and the rest. That doesn’t bode well for Obama.

And before the knee-jerk responses come to mind on the least trusted, those are people who don’t watch FOX anyway, they just reiterate what they hear on the DNC mainstreams.
- Why would you watch a news source you don’t trust?

“Why would you watch a news source you don’t trust?”
Knowing ones enemy/competition is key to winning the war. (or maybe elections like in 2008)

Who watches PBS?

Fox is the most trusted source by people who are told daily that they can’t trust any other source.

Go figure.

How will MSNBC’s resident schoolmarm Rachel Maddow spin the 5%?

Apparently there are only certain KINDS of fairness YOU believe in..

People that use TV as a “source” for knowledge should be taken to one of Mitt Romney’s “quiet rooms” and given a book.

Canned Beck? Just seen him on Fox yesterday. Has the Canned Olbermann ever been invited back to BSNBC? http://www.theblaze.com/stories/glenn-beck-on-the-oreilly-factor-paul-needs-to-shhhh-gingrich-is-big-government-progressive-and-romney-scares-me/

This should put to rest the straw man the conservative mouthpiece is continually ranting about-”THE LIBERAL PRESS”.Faux News-all the slanted news for dumb fx.

The sad thing is that the commercial for Swiffer products is more substantive than the 5 minute conversation about anything.

Goes to show you about polls. Gives people something to write about!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comedy Central???????????????? Was that listed as an option or did that many people spontaneously mention ????t…………..stupid poll

That’s what you take from Tommy’s article?  Really?

racism.

Comedy Central being considered a news source is simply the answer to all of the other news outlets being comically incompetent and laughably transparent in their whorish agendas. 

And lately the DNC is one big hate group, so perhaps they are watching the only REAL news channel.

Yeah, NBC as the least “most trusted” as well as the least “least trusted” can’t be causing many smiles at 30 Rock.

I’ve yet to meet a liberal who wanted to do anything about FOX “News”. That’s all part of that Conservative Victimization Syndrome. Cable “news” draws such a low percentage of American viewers it would be rather like tackling the problem of blind airline pilots.

The poll in this article aside…I agree 100% with the assessment of independants.  My interactions with self proclaimed independants has always led me to believe they are mis/uniformed, out of touch, and indifferent for the most part…voting on a whim or a sound bite….

Glad they decide elections.. :P

Fox is the least trusted source by people who are told constantly that they can’t trust Fox. Imagine that.

Facts, schmacts. We’ve got a narrative to sell here!

It would have taken you two seconds to see that this was the first time they had included Comedy Central.

Stupid poll?  As opposed to those really nuanced polls that are floating around like unicorns?

This was a national poll of 700 people done through automated phone calls.  There is reason that PPP is considered “Pee, Pee, Pee”.

I do.

“Nature”.

“Masterpiece Theater”.

“Nova”.

“The American Experience”.

“Austin City Limits”.

Jim Lehrer. Primary source of news for me.

Almost always.

Other programs from time-to-time.

There are some extremely dumb people out there who think Comedy Central is a news source.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/time-magazine-poll-jon-st_n_242933.html

“This reinforces the idea that these people, who decide every election, are either not paying attention, or just don’t care all that much. You might disagree with liberals or conservatives, but at least they’re engaged.”
Color me confused.  How are people that are using TV as a source of information engaged?

That MSNBC is less least trusted by almost half?

Also surprising that Fox News is mostly trust by older individuals. The survey is mostly white older individuals. So if you look at whose pulling up the trusted portion its that population. While the distrust is more evenly distributed. I think that the individuals are capturing the fact that there is a single source of conservative information, whereas there are a myriad of sources for liberal information.  

No, Comedy Central being considered a news source is evidence of a vapid, non-critical thinking audience.

Can you read rating? Fox News kicked every cable news network in the prized money demo. MSNBC has the old farts watching. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-scoreboard-tuesday-january-17-2_b107567

9% of Democrats prefer Fox News and 8% prefer MSNBC, Tommy Christopher must be in a total state of shock.

Tommy, being an extreme liberal himself, failed to mention ‘Public Policy Polling’ is a DNC affiliated operation, so while Fox being the most trusted is a no-brainer, some of the other details of the poll should be taken with a grain of salt, at least with the knowledge these are liberals talking about liberals and non-liberals.

OMG… MSNBC 5%!!! Holy $hit!!!

I do. NPR too.

But 7X less “most” trusted. You do the math. ;)

pick n choose what favors ur  positions. come on now, be subtle about it a bit. lol. 

Tommy Christopher : why do you fail to remember that Public Policy Polling is linked to the Democratic Party ?

It’s all about polling methods, and the sampling. If Democrats are oversampled by a few points, and if you take left-leaning independents instead of pure independents (which seems to be the case here), you get this kind of results. Exactly like when Public Policy Polling say that Obama is still super popular (are we supposed to believed that Obama has a 2-1 advantage over Romney among independents ? Seriously ?). I’m not an expert, of course but at Q13 they got their sampling wrong by 12 points : it’s actually a +6 advantage for the GOP, not -6 (even far left radicals like Yglesias or Ezra Klein have used those results to illustrate some of their recent blog entries), and at Q15 they got 36% in the 18-29 y.o. demo (and 0% above 65 !!!). This is totally biased. The sample is also quite small (only 700 people : and we have no idea if they’re urban, rural, blue state, red,… We only know that they are not old. But are we supposed to believe in culturally homogeneous choices ? For instance, young republican voters may like Jon Stewart or Family Guy more than an older/more rural/more religious people from the left living in a red state).

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_01171.pdf

Q15 If you are 18 to 45 years old, press 1. If 46 to 65, press 2. If you are older than 65, press 3.
18 to 29………….36%
30 to 45………….44%
46 to 65………….20%

Those pictured,  Bill and Bernie, are newsmen now. They look out for the folks.

Bret Baier is the best newsman working today. If you’re watching Scultz or Maddow for news, just turn in early, because you’ve got a union meeting in the morning.

Your Conservative Victimization Syndrome is acting up again.

Me.  Shields, Brooks and Lehrer are my favorite three amigos.

Bret Baier is nothing close to a newsman. His “news”portion is slanted right and then his panel in the next half hour is usually two starched conservatives who don’t give an inch on anything and the middle person is either a token liberal or has no opinion at all like AB Stoddard.

Speaking of 30 Rock , NBC’s strategy of placing its on air news talent people on every comedy show they produce doesn’t seem  to be working out all that well .
 

Uh, anyone who cares about getting their news from a legitimate, non-partisan source.

What does that have to do with the price of fish? I am only talking about the survey. 

Comedy Central is a news outlet now? No wonder younger audiences are so uninformed and vote democratic.

Tommy Christopher is somehow an exception at Mediaite. Instead of picking partisan polls provided by the DNC (where the sampling of people above 65 y.o. is… 0% – when we all know that older people watch FNC a lot) for mocking a certain news network, the other members of the staff here do some media criticism with integrity and impartiality. For instance, Mediaite honestly reported on the quality of the republican debates on FNC (to compare with the ‘pepsi or coke ?’ questions from John King on CNN, or the questions about contraception by Stephanopolous which was a bet), they reported on the tough interview between Bret Baier and Romney, they reported on the ultra partisan lineup on MSNBC during election nights, they seem to have a lot of respect for Bill O’Reilly and Chris Wallace… And when they put clips from Jon Stewart, the guy seems more reasonable and less outrageous than their other clips from MSNBC debates.

I certainly don’t trust MSNBC. I don’t trust FOX “News” either. Apparently, I am in the same position as many Americans.

That’s odd Fox tells viewers constantly not to trust anyone else but themselves.You know that, right?

I don’t see what is difficult to understand.Fox is most trusted because they have the biggest audience who “happens” to be mostly republican but the are most untrusted because the other portion doesn’t live in the Fox bubble and knows the Fox games.

Via Media Matters for America: 

http://dropfox.com/

You “seen” him, really?  I’m not at all surprised that you, a loyal Foxist, ”seen” him.

“Fair and Balanced” for an unbalanced audience.

No, the PPP survey is excluding older people. So it’s young people. Possibly more urban than rural (but we don’t know). What we know, is that younger people tend to be less involved in politics and news, and that there are more left-leaning independants in this demo (probably a trick from PPP to get results that fit with their ideology). However, it’s an interesting poll, I find it interesting that ABC and CNN are loved loved loved by “very liberal” people. It says a lot.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_01171.pdfQ15 If you are 18 to 45 years old, press 1. If 46 to 65, press 2. If you are older than 65, press 3.18 to 29………….36%30 to 45………….44%46 to 65………….20%

But it’s the crowd who can barely muster enough intelligence to stop rocking back forth long enough to grunt and clap at their television sets when Hannity’s face appears that trusts Fox. 

No, it’s evidence of an audience that demands more depth than the pre-packaged talking points that are repeated ad-nauseum on traditional news outlets.  It’s also humor, so you get the occasional crude joke, but if that’s all you see it for you most definitely are speaking from a position of ignorance. 

No one, but old people and Tat boy, watch PBS.

For not liking Fox, you sure talk a lot about Fox.

I consider the “old people” the eldest population surveyed here. Nice clarification though. I can imagine the numbers even more skewed if over 65 was used, but I have no evidence to back that. 

That’s a pretty sad picture of your perception of the media. I’ll grant you Schultz and Maddow are partisan, but you’ve got to be willfully blind not to think that Bret, Bill and Bernie aren’t spinning the news for a right-wing audience. There are much better anchors out there, and if you want real news you should be reading investigative reporters at quality publications rather than listening to the talking heads who just talk about what others report. 

From yesterdays rating three times more people watch Fox than the BSNationalBarackChannel.

You have a lot of very strange obsessions. This is one of them.

You would be assuming that NBC had a strategy at all.

No, you appear to have the obsession with all things Fox.

And trutherism.

I did enjoy you equating Orly and Sullivan though. That was awesome.

What level of education do you have? And what universities did you graduate from? We could compare levels of education. I have no fear.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh my.

That was too awesome. And by awesome, I mean tragic.

So water-skiing squirrels and ambulance chasing is the only standard by which we can judge what is “news” and what isn’t? 

Bret’s fair, Bill’s in the middle and Bernie is just a contributor. Why would you consider Bernie in the same category as Bret or Bill? That makes no sense.

Gloves was making a funny. You were attempting to make an actual point.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone so charmed by themselves as you are. And with so little reason.

Says the person whose free time includes coming here every day.

Do you not get the funny vibes that you give off? Do you think that your words sway any opinion in real life? Do tell.

Its the hive mind talking for him….just disregard..

Austin City Limits.  That’s all though.

But dont know everyone else’s game….

Being trusted doesn´t mean you are trustworthy. FoxNews is for right wingers what Bernie Madoff was for Wall Street society. They get to hear promises their wishes will be fulfilled while they are taken for a ride.

I don’t think you understand these numbers.

Best news is that INDEPENDENTS prefer & trust FOX most, followed by the trenchantly leftist PBS schlock.   BSNBC has the lowest of everyone.  Where is the trust for Bri-boy Williams?    

I don’t think so.  According to Public Policy Polling that conducted the study:

“A year ago a plurality of Americans said they trusted Fox News. Now a plurality of them don’t. ”

And:

“…But moderates and liberals have both had a strong increase in their
level of distrust for the network (FNC) – a 12 point gain from 48% to 60% for
moderates and a 16 point gain from 66% to 82% for liberals. ”

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

A couple of old addages come to mind, 1) There’s a sucker born every minute, 2) You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can fool Fox news viewers every day.

I don’t understand why conservatives point to Fox’s ratings like they are a good thing.

MSNBC is, in alot of ways, just the liberal version of Fox.  So I actually see it as a compliment to the intelligence of liberals that MSNBC has such terrible ratings.  Unlike conservatives, it seems that liberals are less interested in only viewing news which will reflect their own biases back to them.

If these results show anything, it’s that conservatives love Fox, while liberals tend to split and aren’t really dedicated to any one news source. Which, again, I think only speaks well of liberals.

“News Hour” is the single best News Source on TV. There’s a reason why Jim Lehrer is usually one of the only debate moderators that both the GOP and DFL can agree on for presidential debates.

BBC World news (which my PBS affiliate also reruns every day) can be pretty good too as they still adhere to a sort of old school journalistic mindset and they are sort of removed from American politics so their perspective on things is often refreshingly clinical and remote without alot of the BS human interest emotional stories you find on most of the major AMerican news casts.

I would just like to say that I think this entire article was spot on with the exception of why independents aren’t involved.  The author should have left out the personal opinion and looked at surveys about why independents aren’t as gung ho over the ‘perceived’ issues framed by right and left wing media.  I think you would find that Independents are just that – independent minded and are not bought or bribed by millions of dollars in ad campaigns.  They make up their mind based on the facts and move on with their life, knowing that ultimately, life will still go on no matter who’s President.

All three of the traditional major networks- NBC, CBS, and ABC- have seen an increase in their trust levels over the last year…but Fox has experienced a decrease…hummm.

Doesn’t even matter – facts are that Republicans watch Fox and rate it highly.  Democrats watch everyone, and have varying levels of trust for each network.

Statistically, Independents watch Fox and PBS the same…sorry.

This Old House
America’s Test Kitchen

Plus, Downton Abbey is a pretty good show.

Journalists aren’t supposed to “look out for the folks.”

WTF does that even mean?

That’s something a slimey used car salesman tells you before he tries to sell you an over priced jalopy.

Two things.  I find it interesting that polling now has become an industry in itself.  Yet I have not been participated in any of these polls.

Second, this is actually a true story.  Years ago my wife (who was my girlfriend at the time) went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California.  It was a busy day and there were long lines at the ticket counter.  I notice their was a ticket counter that looked open but there was no line.  So I walked up and asked the person behind the counter if he was open and he said yes so we bought tickets as a swarm of people moved out of the other long lines behind us.  Now later on that same day we were walking towards the roller coaster, Colossus, and saw there was this long, long line of people waiting to go on the ride.  Now Colossus has two tracks and I saw that there was no line for entry onto the other track but their was an employee standing there.  So I went up to him and asked him if his line was open and he said yes to the dismay of patrons who had been waiting in the other line all this time.  Why he didn’t announce he was open, I don’t know.  Maybe he was just amused had how stupid these people were. But my point is I learned that day how easily people can act like sheep.

So that brings me to Fox News.  Now we know the majority of Fox News viewers are conservative and the majority of Republicon voters turn to Fox News for their truth.  So that tells me, Roger Ailes has done a good job at herding sheep.  I mean 9/11 was the perfect catalyst for Ailes to exploit and seduce mentally shocked sheep into his web of deceit.  He, like the Bush administration, played the fear card for as much as they could get out of it to fulfill their agenda.  And Fox News does not have to adhere to FCC rules of “truth in advertising.”  Brilliant!  This scenario fits perfectly with how the GOP seduces people to follow and vote against their best interests as Thomas Franks explains in his book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?  How Conservatives Won the Hearth of America.”  “Fair and Balanced?”  Not so much.

You really are the voice of the Republican party now: willfully ignorant and proud of it.

The other way of looking at your story is that the in long line are those complacent sheep whose news comes from the usual suspects at the ABCCBSNBCCNNPBSMSNBCNPRNYTWAPOLAT…. network. And the short line is FOX.

Juan Williams conspired with Rupert Murdock to inflict damage to NPR in exchange for William’s position as a Fox News Contributor, Do you really think that things happen by accident in Rupert Murdock’s world?
What happened to Juan Williams during the GOP debate is what you get when your a little too uppity for the Conservative leaders of Rich White Males and of all places a Fox News Political Debate.
Juan Williams made his bed at Fox, now he gets to lay in it and got what he deserved for his treacherous betrayal of his former employers at NPR. After all why should conservatives respect Williams? Everyone knows that he was played for a sucker in Murdock’s goal of world media domination.
 
Juan Williams humiliation is his own, a man without a country.

What are you talking about? *I* was the one who ”
 honestly reported on the quality of the republican debates on FNC ” and ”
reported on the tough interview between Bret Baier and Romney.” Here’s a hint: the author’s name is right under the headline. 

Ha! So you’ll keep the result you like, and toss out the rest? What sense does that make? If PPP is so biased, why would they have made Fox the most trusted?

They’re not a “DNC affiliated operation,” they are a consulting firm that is transparent about its mostly Democratic clients. I’m at a loss to see what difference that makes in a poll like this.

Because they’re not. PPP is an independent consulting firm with predominantly Democratic candidates.

 Rumpole of the Bailey.

Public Policy Polling (PPP) is an American Democratic Party-affiliated polling firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1][2][3] PPP was founded in 2001 by businessman and Democratic pollster Dean Debnam…
…
Many PPP election polls were commissioned by the liberal website *Dailykos…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling

*Dailykos is the far-left website that calls Juan Willaims a toilet and says that he eats sh*t.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/01/19/daily-kos-juan-williams-toilet

Public Policy Polling (PPP) is an American Democratic Party-affiliated polling firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1][2][3] PPP was founded in 2001 by businessman and Democratic pollster Dean Debnam…
…
Many PPP election polls were commissioned by the liberal website *Dailykos…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling

*Dailykos is the far-left website that calls Juan Willaims a toilet and says that he eats sh*t.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/01/19/daily-kos-juan-williams-toilet

My family always watch Fox news.We can not stomach M.S.N.B.C. because they take their order on what is say from Obama and the Democratic party.M.S.N.B.C. is vile and hateful and a disgrace to all Americans

Like Rasmussen…all the way down to the IVR system and land-line only interviewing.  Both firms are very lacking in their methodology and disappointing in their bias.  Real research firms like Ipsos, Synovate, TRC, ICR, Nielsen and others that have no political affiliation or lineage, and that adhere to CASRO and AAPOR rules, are the only firms you can trust with this stuff.  The rest is suspect.

And yet polls show they’re better informed than the average Fox viewer.

Where did you and your family go to school?   Was it the Glenn Beck University of English launguification?

I am sorry, but that is not possible.  I know what Fox News is all about. 

Doubtful.

You have no business using the phrase “critical thinking” as a defense especially with this subject.  You clearly just used the talking point “buzz” phrase, “critical thinking” to attempt to attack something you know nothing about… Pablo.

Tedderman,
                I do not write emotionally disturbed toady comments like yours.

No fear? What is it with you, WC? You seem to want to have a p*ssing contest with a stranger on the Internet who isn’t even addressing you. 

But I’ll play. I have two BA’s–History and English–from a university usually ranked in the top 15. I got accepted into a PhD program on international 20th century history but declined because I didn’t want to incur the debt and was offered a good job around the same time. Would like me to forward you a letter of recommendation? Should we compare GRE scores? First time was around 1350 and second time 1490. Would you like to know my Social Security number? I have no fear. 

None of that is important at all to anything we’re debating. It would be good to stick to the topic. I’m not trying to personally attack you and if you feel that way, let me know, WC. Let me know everything about you. 

When the President of the United States, the chair of the DNC and other democrats call out Fox News as the cause of their pains and that they are right wing noise machines I think you lose your argument.  Add to that the fairness doctrine that pops up every now and then because conservative talk radio is far more popular than liberal talk radio.  The left holds the majority share in favored opinions on all TV and Movies (but not radio) and they still can’t be happy with nearly the whole pie….

Comedy Central if taken in the right context is funny.  I enjoy Stewart and Colbert – however there is a large audience of watchers who may take the stories/points of view seriously.  That is the scary part.  No news story should be taken at face value by the person reporting it.  

You Fox drones keep beating the drum that Liberals are all fed their information by MSNBC. This poll proves you wrong.

Quite contrary.

It proves that Republicans are fed all of their information/minsinformation by FOX NEWS.

And you think you are winning!

Get out of the cult now! Diversify your info intake.

Soon you may be able to develop your OWN independently formed COGENT thoughts.

This poll simply shows that Fox News is the propaganda machine for the Republican Party. We don’t want you to shut it down, we just want you to admit the truth.

You Fox drones keep beating the drum that Liberals are all fed their information by MSNBC.

This poll proves you wrong.

Quite contrary.It proves that Republicans are fed all of their information/minsinformation by FOX NEWS.And you think you are winning!

Get out of the cult now!

Diversify your info intake.Soon you may be able to develop your OWN independently formed COGENT thoughts.

You are a parody of yourself.

Why don’t you get rid of this phony name “Pablo”. You are no more a Hispanic than I am Bruce Willis.

stop with the facts already

rightwingers only listen to New Yorkers on Fox

To say you don’t trust “MSNBC” is pretty silly.

Say you don’t trust “Rachel Maddow” or “whomever”.

If you’re going to make broad generalizations, then just say you don’t trust anybody on any network.

That’s healthy. But after that, who specifically do you trust the most and the least.

It’s a fact that FOX news sets a daily agenda complete with talking points that nearly all of their commentators adhere to. I haven’t seen any proof that MSNBC does that.

But as far as Fox goes, I trust Gregg Jarett, Allan Colmes and 
Shepard Smith the most and Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity the least.

At MSNBC I trust Rachel Maddow the most and Al Sharpton the least.

yes, because everything in books is TRUE

c’mon man, don’t try so hard to sound smart

“it’s the hive mind”

You just described Fox News and its viewers…this poll proves that all of you take all of your broadcast news and partisan bias from ONE SOURCE.

The rest of us watch a variety of sources.

Polls like this are not gospel.

They are a snapshot in time.

And they are scientifically accurate to a certain degree. Of course results can be tainted by word phrasing, but this one seems fairly straight forward.

I see no need to doubt its accuracy.

they were obviously responding to a question.

if you want to find dumb people, ask Republican voters in South Carolina why 5 percent of them support COLBERT for president

The German people in 1930 thought the Nazi’s were the most trusted news source so this is a stupid poll

Especially after the email sent from right wing think tanks were read on air by Fox News typos and all … 

Say they guy through complete concjecture forms a post that is exactly in line with what the DNC whats you to believe.

says the GOP/FOX shill

Suprise! More conjecture!

If they are going to include Comedy Central they need to include SNL, Comedy Central is just that, comedy, not news.

I do, and to listen to morons like Chris Matthews gives me the worst of headaches. The liberals control the mass media, we have one outlet. How can you trust multiple sources that splinter from one political point of view? Then we also have Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who are not on Fox anymore but still come back to contribute to this one network as well as their own media outlet (and yes, Rush used to have his own show).
But I read and watch news from all different outlets, whether it be CNN, “pms”NBC, HLN, etc. and I have to say, I do not agree with one thing they say. Oh yeah, and how is Keith Olbermann doing?