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Title: Poll Shows Fox News is America’s Most Trusted TV News Source. Let that Sink in
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The Anti-Media
URL Source: http://theantimedia.org/fox-news-most-trusted-seriously/
Published: Mar 11, 2015
Author: Carey Wedler
Post Date: 2015-03-12 07:30:20 by Deckard
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Views: 921
Comments: 5
(ANTIMEDIA) In 2014, Fox News was the most trusted news source in America. In 2015 — weeks after Bill O’Reilly was exposed for lying — Americans still believe Fox is the most trustworthy source of information. var qs=""; for(var key in params){qs+=key+"="+params[key]+"&"} qs=qs.substring(0,qs.length-1); var s = document.createElement("script"); s.type= 'text/javascript'; s.src = "http://api.content.ad/Scripts/widget.aspx?" + qs; s.async = true; document.getElementById("contentad19104").appendChild(s); })(); The Quinnipiac University poll, released Monday, found that among television news, 29% of Americans trust Fox to be honest while only 22% trust CNN and 7% put faith in MSNBC. CBS and NBC earned 10% while ABC received 7%. The poll highlights a common pattern in the quintessential behavior of many Americans: a habit of buying into lies even after they have been exposed as such. Americans were lied to about the scope of domestic surveillance — and to their credit were incensed for a short while. Many have reverted to believing the lies of politicians that bulk spying and storing their selfies is necessary to keep them safe from terrorists. The FBI has been caught lying about foiling terrorist plots when they, in fact, created them by framing innocent, unstable individuals. Still, Americans believe terrorism is the number one issue that needs to be addressed (likely in part because CNN and Fox replayed ISIS beheading videos ad nauseam in between breaking coverage of internet cats and Justin Bieber). Americans were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq over a decade ago. They found out it was a flagrant manipulation of reality, but many continued to support the president and war. The military has not been curbed since the invasion of Iraq. Rather, Americans are still hung up on the same fear-mongering that politicians spew about Iran and its potential nuclear bomb. Clearly, Americans are unconcerned with the truth. The poll demonstrated this with 42% of registered voters saying Brian Williams, another lying “journalist,” should be given his job back. 51% gave Bill O’Reilly the benefit of the doubt, claiming they didn’t know enough about his situation to say whether he should be fired, suspended, or allowed to continue. The average American is evidently a long way from seeking “truth” beyond what their televisions tell them to believe. The tendency to learn of being lied to yet still feed into the lies is ultimately a reflection of the power of fear. Both the corporate media and the government capitalize on a terrified population that will sacrifice anything for illusory security. On the bright side, 48% of those polled believed news is less trustworthy than it was in the prime era of network news. 35% believed it was the same. A mere 7% of poor fools believed television news is now more trustworthy. This reflects a broader trend in the growing distrust of corporate media outlets that is accompanied by a surge in the popularity of independent news organizations. Though the Quinnipiac poll has dark implications for now, there is still reason to be optimistic for the evolving future of information and those who seek it. This article is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TheAntiMedia.org. Tune-in to The Anti-Media radio show Monday-Friday @ 11pm EST, 8pm PST.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Actually, the quality and depth of reporting at FNC is rather appalling. And the sheer repetition of the same stories, over and over as the various contracted FNC personalities all add their identical two-cents to the scandal-of-the-week. Overall, it is sloppy and quite shallow. The foreign reporting is quite weak (their entire Mideast bureau is just some guy standing on the roof of a hotel in Tel Aviv on satellite webcam). So FNC is no great shakes as far as news reporting. It's just that the other libmedia sources are so obviously biased and so determined to avoid any actual news that might be detrimental to Obola and other liberal deities that it is complete dreck, even to the booboisie that the American public has become in the era of Teh Internet and dumbed-down schools.
You wanna know why they are number one.... Because the alternative is the Free Thought Project, Infowars and all those O'bunghole loving stations. If I've gotta make a choice between reading about the ISIS incident in Paris was a false flag or nothing at all about KILLary's two email accounts.... I'll stick to Fox. They ain't perfect but they ain't YELLOW and they ain't your big brotha.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
I'd agree. FNC is not #1 because they're so great. It's just that the others are so awful and so obviously grinding a partisan ax. FNC is plenty partisan but you see and know their biases and take those into account. What is surprising is that in an era with so many media staff in so many orgs with so many news sources, they report so few stories and so shallowly. Some days, I think the major news orgs are there to avoid reporting the news broadly and without bias.
Yeah - we can't have journalists straying from the reservation and reporting facts that dispute the official fed.gov narrative, can we?
Is that what you call yellow journalism? lol Look, they are a joke... and it's sad because they could offer a differing opinion in a responsible way with good non bias writting, but they choose to offer that opinion in a fear mongering venue.... because your favorite news sources AREN'T there to report news as a primary goal... they are there to promote AGENDAS.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Title: Poll Shows Fox News is America’s Most Trusted TV News Source. Let that Sink in
#2. To: TooConservative (#1)
So FNC is no great shakes as far as news reporting.
#3. To: GrandIsland (#2)
#4. To: GrandIsland (#2)
Because the alternative is the Free Thought Project, Infowars
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
(Edited)
Yeah - we can't have journalists straying from the reservation and reporting facts that dispute the official fed.gov narrative, can we?
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