Poll Says FOX News is Most Trusted News Source

74 Percent of Poll Responder Where White

Here is a sign of the apocalypse, if the ever was one. A recent poll by Public Policy Polling states that FOX News is the most trusted news source. Yes, I had to read that twice too. The poll states that 49 percent of the responders said they trusted FOX News and 37 percent of responders said they did not trust FOX. Not surprisingly, 74 percent of Republicans said they trusted FOX, compared to only 30 percent of Democrats. The polls also shows that only 33 percent of African American voters trusted FOX News.

CNN was the next most trusted news source, with 39 percent saying they trusted it, compared to 41 percent who didn't. 59 percent of Democrats said they trusted CNN, while 33 percent of Independents and only 23 percent of Republicans said they found CNN credible. Public Policy Polling surveyed 1,151 registered voters from Jan. 18-19.

Polls can be designed to say whatever you want. We don't know what part of the country the responders came from. I am sure California voters would respond differently to Alabama voters. The racial breakdown of the responders to the poll is illuminating. 74 percent of responders where white, 12 percent where African American and 10 percent where Hispanic. So a poll of mainly white men stated that they found FOX News the most credible news source. This is not surprising since 95 percent of FOX viewers are white, and their programming is tailored to angry, white men.

You also have to factor the stupidity of the average American. (Most Americans can't pick out Europe on the map, and can't tell you the difference between Iraq or Iran, talk less of locating them on the map.) I don't know how anyone with a half-functioning brain could think that FOX is a credible news source. I knew our education system was in trouble, but we should all be worried when Americans considered the notoriously-biased FOX News as a credible news source.

This is the channel that gave us Glenn Beck, a host who can't even spell oligarch correctly. Beck also peddles a different conspiracy theory every night. And they also made Sarah Palin, a woman who thought Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11, a pundit.

There are numerous other incidents of FOX news error that would get a rookie reporter fired such as:

• Referring to Rep. Mark Foley, the congressman busted for sexually harassing minors, as a Democrat. (This is not the only time they have misidentified a disgraced Republican as a Democrat.)
• Running a story claiming then Sen. Barack Obama attended a Muslim school, which was later discredited by CNN.
• Accusing the Obamas of performing a "terrorist" fist bump.
• Running fake footage of the Tea Party rally to make the numbers seem larger.
• Deliberately editing footage to create misleading quotes.

Check out Media Matters for more of FOX's never-ending lists of journalistic sins.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_126.pdf

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