The site has a link to the survey.
Quote:Fox News: Fair and Balanced — and, according to a new survey, the most trusted news source around.
Tucked inside a big Brookings survey on immigration are a few questions about the integrity of television news. And there, 25 percent of respondents say they trust Fox more than any other TV source for "accurate information about politics and current events," giving the network a slight edge over generic broadcast news. By contrast, MSNBC places last with just five percent, a hair behind The Daily Show.
This isn't the first time a poll has found Fox as the most trusted news source. For five years running, the network has taken top honors in PPP's annual media survey.
- - Jon Terbush
http://theweek.com/article/index/262933/...z34HLyamZf
The funny thing I found about the chart (other than it shows the tendency to stick with a network that confirms your ideological beliefs).
MSNBC lost to _Everyone_, including the non-news shows
the comedy channel is seen as having more journalistic integrity than msnbc.
nice.
(06-10-2014 10:17 PM)EagleX Wrote: [ -> ]the comedy channel is seen as having more journalistic integrity than msnbc.
nice.
it sux hind tit, doesn't it....caught the underlying
edit: you just defined why I hate the media.....
Far more trusted but actually less accurate. Polls and studies show Fox viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all.
Fox, MSNBC, and CNN viewers were less informed than Daily Show watchers. Political echo chambers inform no one.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-wat...all-2012-5
(06-11-2014 07:43 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]Far more trusted but actually less accurate. Polls and studies show Fox viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all. Fox, MSNBC, and CNN viewers were less informed than Daily Show watchers. Political echo chambers inform no one.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-wat...all-2012-5
I'm calling Bullsh!t on that one. Polls and studies done by spring breakers, maybe.
We had discussed that BI questionnaire before, bb.. the business insider survey came under some serious fire.. because they only had 5 questions total on the 2 news groups. And I remember someone had found a link that had listed the questions and if you weren't aware of some very specific stories, you weren't going to answer the questions well, even if you just guessed.
Every set of numbers on their questionnaire was what the majority of the posters (both sides of the political spectrum) were 'disingenuous' at best.
i think one 'really heavy anti-fox news poster' *cough*Robert*cough* swore up and and down that FOXNWS viewers were "stupid".. Nobody else bought into the 'results' of the survey.
It's kind of funny, the second poll in your link shows that Fox News is both the most trusted in American and the least trusted.
(06-11-2014 07:51 AM)EpicNiner Wrote: [ -> ]It's kind of funny, the second poll in your link shows that Fox News is both the most trusted in American and the least trusted.
That's pretty much the result you would expect when you have one channel with a conservative lean and all the rest lean left.
The conservative channel gets the conservative votes for, while the liberal votes for are split. And the conservative channel gets the liberal votes against, while conservatives split their against votes among the others.
I have little problem with the veracity of most fox news stuff when it's actual news. But I also know when it's the opinion portion. which is mostly spin and pure unadulterated bull****. The problem is that their normal viewers probably can't make that distinction, at all.
And before you go there...I feel the same way about MSNBC.
(06-11-2014 03:34 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]I have little problem with the veracity of most fox news stuff when it's actual news. But I also know when it's the opinion portion. which is mostly spin and pure unadulterated bull****. The problem is that their normal viewers probably can't make that distinction, at all.
And before you go there...I feel the same way about MSNBC.
Yea, those dumb redneck rubes...
Actually it's pretty simple to make that distinction even for the knuckle draggers. It's called look at the clock.
(06-11-2014 07:43 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]Far more trusted but actually less accurate. Polls and studies show Fox viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all. Fox, MSNBC, and CNN viewers were less informed than Daily Show watchers. Political echo chambers inform no one.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-wat...all-2012-5
The Daily Show? LOL
I get my news news elsewhere and watch shows like TDS occasionally for funnies. These shows are meant to entertain and sometimes make excellent points but are hardly where you should go for hard hitting news.
If you get your news from Fox, CNN, MSNBC, you're doin' it wrong in this day and age. ALL of them have an agenda. ALL of them play to their audience.
The most balanced news is either coming internationally as they have less need to please the American people, or strictly from online sources.
I was flipping through channels the other day and they were talking about Ukraine with a very uh, new, viewpoint. The channel was "RT". Appears to be Russian Television. It was sort of like watching Fox TV, though with a different slant obviously.
(06-11-2014 03:34 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]I have little problem with the veracity of most fox news stuff when it's actual news. But I also know when it's the opinion portion. which is mostly spin and pure unadulterated bull****. The problem is that their normal viewers probably can't make that distinction, at all.
And before you go there...I feel the same way about MSNBC.
I don't have problems with veracity of the actual news programs on any of them. There is very little that any of them dare put on a news show that isn't pretty carefully vetted.
Where I have problems with ALL of them, incluidng the straight news shows, is completeness and objectivity. In terms of the three questions you're asked when you go on the witness stand, they all tell the truth, but not the whole truth and not necessarily nothing but the truth. And as I say, that applies to the straight news as well as the opinion on any of them. A Matt Lauer or Katie Couric, or any of them, has too much reputation to risk reporting something that is totally false and becoming the next Dan Rather. But they pick and choose what parts of the truth to report, and anything unfavorable to their point of view gets omitted or very much soft-pedaled if omitting is not possible. And contrary points of view get dismissive reports, accompanied by remarkably unflattering photos of their advocates. It's subtle stuff, stuff that's not readily measured by any of the metrics in the published media bias stories, and it's generally very well executed. But it's still misleading, and every single outlet still engages in it to some extent.
If you know how to view MSNBC I actually think they are more accurate than Fox.
Simply tune into MSNBC and translate every statement into the polar opposite and you have the truth.
(06-11-2014 04:49 PM)JDTulane Wrote: [ -> ]I get my news news elsewhere and watch shows like TDS occasionally for funnies. These shows are meant to entertain and sometimes make excellent points but are hardly where you should go for hard hitting news.
If you get your news from Fox, CNN, MSNBC, you're doin' it wrong in this day and age. ALL of them have an agenda. ALL of them play to their audience.
The most balanced news is either coming internationally as they have less need to please the American people, or strictly from online sources.
Fox News is pretty balanced. The talk shows, however, Hannity, Carlson, the 5, etc., have their agendas. NBC News has agendas all around.
