Fox News Tops Poll of National News Trustworthiness; MSNBC Ranked Last

Quinnipiac is out with a new poll today examining several media issues, and in the question of which national news outlet is the most trusted, Fox News comes out on top.

20 percent said they trust Fox News’ coverage “a great deal,” compared to 14 percent each for NBC, CBS, and ABC, MSNBC’s 11 percent, and 18 percent for CNN.

And a total of 29 percent say they trust Fox News’ coverage the most, with CNN in second place with 22 percent. (MSNBC only gets 7 percent.) Overall, though, a little less than half of everyone polled said the overall trustworthiness of the national news has gone down since the days of Walter Cronkite.

The poll also asks about Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly, both at the center of controversies about trustworthiness. 42 percent say NBC should let Williams back on the nightly news, while only a total of 23 percent think either O’Reilly should be fired or suspended. And a whopping 51 percent said they just don’t know enough about the controversy in the first place.

The poll also found Tina Fey as the most popular choice to succeed Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

You can read the full poll results here.

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