Btw this article doesn't quite mean what the illiterati (the OP) think it means. Read:
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In its fifth trust poll, 35 percent said they trusted Fox news more than any other outlet, followed by PBS at 14 percent, ABC at 11 percent, CNN at 10 percent, CBS at 9 percent, 6 percent for MSNBC and Comedy Central, and just 3 percent for NBC.
Stop there, add those up: 35 + 14 + 11 + 10 + 9 + 6 + 6 + 3 = 94%. Presumably the other 6% is made up of several smaller sources all under 3%.
That means a respondent is being asked to vote for one outlet only. Now let's see the narrative of the poll itself,
which is here -- the link given didn't seem to want to list that for some odd reason...
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PPP's 5th annual poll about trust in TV news continues to find what it does every year: Fox News is both the most trusted and least trusted name in news.
... It leads the way because of its continuing near total support among Republicans as the place to go for news- 69% of Republicans say it's their most trusted source with nothing else polling above 7% . <<
This was quoted in the link and the OP. Next is the part they chose to excise:
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Meanwhile Democrats are split between a lot of different outlets when it comes to who they have the most faith in- PBS at 21%, CNN and ABC at 18%, and CBS and MSNBC at 12% all poll in double digits. It's interesting that while Fox News and MSNBC are often thought of as equivalent, Fox News is by far and away the most trusted source of GOP voters while MSNBC is only tied for 4th among Democrats. <<
Now that's just a tiny bit different from what was implied in the yahoo story. If alphabets (traditional broadcast networks only) are taken as a whole they come out to 23%. Add CNN and it's 33%.
Next paragraph in the PPP report notes:
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Fox News also leads the 'least trusted' list in our annual poll. 33% give it that designation to 19% for MSNBC, 14% for Comedy Central, 11% for CNN, 5% for ABC, 4% for CBS, and 2% each for NBC and PBS. <<
The article did mention that Fox won the 'least trusted' category although it didn't go into any inconvenient details or contrasts. The OP didn't mention it at all. Perhaps the phone rang at that moment. But it does tell us almost twice as many consider Fox their "least trusted" source as those who consider MSNBC their "least trusted".
Finally, continuing again:
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When you look at the 8 outlets we tested individually, only one is clearly trusted by a majority of Americans. That's PBS, which 57% say they trust to 24% who don't. Most Democrats (80/6) and independents (49/31) trust it and it at least gets an even split with Republicans at 38%.
Voters are closely divided about most of the rest of the outlets- Fox News comes in at 44/42, CBS at 39/37, CNN at 40/40, NBC at 39/39, and ABC News at 37/38. In Fox's case 75% of Republicans trust it while only 20% of Democrats do. For all the rest of them around 60-70% of Democrats trust them, but only around 20% of Republicans do. <<
The full results of the poll (
pdf here, which was also not given at the yahoo article) indicate that the major news entity that got the fewest "trusted" answers was actually ABC, at 37%, followed closely by CBS and NBC at 39, with CNN running at 40. In other words, dead heat. The two entities (out of everybody) who got the most "don't trust it" votes were MSNBC and Fox, with 44 and 42% respectively -- another dead heat.
Now look down to
Q16 and notice that the population of the poll leans right:
43% of respondents described themselves as "somewhat" or "very" conservative, while 31% described themselves as "somewhat" or "very" liberal.
Sliiiiightly different results from the implication in the title and the OP. Which once again underscores why it's imperative to get news from credible journalistic sources, rather than the Drudges and National Exhuminer. Unless of course you're engaged in constructing a fake alternate reality.
Nothing like slanting the news, huh Paulie?
Lots more breakdowns at the pdf, including how people voted and lots of demographics by age, race, gender etc. -- although disturbingly all these demographics add up to 100%, which means there was apparently no option for "refused/no answer". But suffice to say the poll doesn't say what the yahoo OP and article indicated it did.
Oh wait, one more thing (Colombo voice)... the source, that yahoo article (and I'm using 'yahoo' as an adjective, not the site Yahoo) - the Washington Examiner:
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The paper's national political coverage, which also appears in Examiner papers in Baltimore and San Francisco, was previously headed by Bill Sammon, a former Washington Times reporter who has written several books praising George W. Bush. (Sammon is now the deputy managing editor for Fox News Channel's Washington bureau.[1]) Chris Stirewalt, who has been described as "a true conservative voice"[2], is the Examiner's political editor. Mary Katherine Ham, former managing editor of the conservative Townhall.com, briefly served as the Examiner's online editor for a few months in 2008 [3] before joining the Weekly Standard.[4] Matthew Sheffield, executive editor of the Media Research Center blog NewsBusters, is in charge of the Examiner's website.[5] Byron York, formerly of National Review, joined the paper in February 2009.[6] << (
Sourcewatch)
Not that there's, y'know, collusion going on or anything...
