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dsrtaoPeople who trust Fox don't trust any other news source. If you don't trust Fox, other news sources seem to be reasonably trustworthy.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/01/19/fox-news-trust-distrust-and-control/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/01/19/fox-news-trust-distrust-and-control/
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Date: 2012-01-20 04:59 pm (UTC)The actual data is fascinating. I see it as breaking down into
3 categories.
Category One: for each news source they poll: do you trust it or not?
Category Two: Which is your MOST trusted source?
Category Three: Which is your LEAST trusted source?
PBS dominates the first category - on a do/don't scale, more people do trust it than any other source.
On Category Two (name the source you trust the most), Fox News has the most winners. On Category Three, Fox also dominates.
It's interesting to see the strong polarization - which, I suspect, would spell out troubling things regardless of who selected it and who they were.
But in this case, the "most troubling result" seems to be around Fox News. (There are also a lot of troubling indicators around Comedy Central, but since it is not pretending to be a news source, I am ignoring that.)
PBS did especially well on the "Least Trusted" measure, in the sense that very few groups listed it as least trusted.