Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low - Partisan Divide Grows At Fox News, CNN Seen As More Favorable Than Fox News Or MSNBC »
Posted By TimALoftis 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.
Partisan differences in views of Fox News have increased substantially since 2007. Today, a large majority of Republicans view Fox News positively (72%), compared with just 43% of Democrats. In 2007, 73% of Republicans and 61% of Democrats viewed Fox News favorably. Three-quarters (75%) of Democrats assess CNN favorably, while just 44% of Republicans do so, which is little changed from two years ago.
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Endoscopy3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Lets look at the ratings instead.
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FNC – 3,042,000viewers
CNN— 808,000 viewers
MSNBC –1,196,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch w/109,000 viewers
HLN – 674,000viewers
Looking really bad for Fox. They only have more than the rest combined. So people must be really sick of them. LOL -
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Klarissa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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What it really comes down to is, if you watch CNN and MSNBC you think that they are the fairest.
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If you watch Fox, you think they are the fairest.
This indicates a preselected bias towards the source of the viewer.
Partisanship and Cable Sources
Four-in-ten (40%) Americans cite a major cable news outlet (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC) as their main source for news about national and international affairs.
As in the past, comparable percentages say they rely on CNN (22%) and Fox News (19%) while fewer (6%) say they get most of their news from MSNBC.
There has been a gradual widening in the partisan differences in the viewership of both Fox News and CNN in recent years.
More than three times as many Republicans (34%) as Democrats (10%) say they get most of their national and international news from Fox.
By comparison, Democrats are more than twice as likely than Republicans to cite CNN (29% vs. 13%). A similar pattern is evident for MSNBC, with more Democrats (9%) than Republicans (3%) citing it as a main news source.-
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Will13133 months, 2 weeks ago
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anyone and i do mean anyone that believes that where political stories are concerned .. not the rest of the news. but political news..
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that Fox is Fair and Balances or truthful..
anyone that believes that is severely intellectually challenged and needs to seek help. and for the sake of societal evolution have themselves neutered.
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dasqf3 months, 1 week ago
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BUCKY BOY,unglued? dont think so. my left,your............oh my god their coming to kill grandma,(the lady you see one day a year) 'right' wing thought pattern of a beck,savage,limpbaugh,jones etc,etc,etc,etc I dont want to go on. back to the real world,yea,the democrate won.and yea,he is a BLACK MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!so, you know how WE felt in 2000? deal with it,BRO....however, our man will fill in the hole georgie dug.its what democrates do. you sad little man............blessings to all ..........power to the peacefull
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TimALoftis3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Make no mistake about it...people are increasingly gravitating toward news sources that they politically agree with instead of the few outlets out there that try to play it down the middle. The subject of politics dominate the cable channels with both Fox News and MSNBC devoting practically there entire late afternoon and evening programming to it. Glenn Beck, Chris Matthews, The Ed Show, Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity and Rachael Maddow all run very politically partisan programs. Word has it that a Sarah Palin show is just around the corner for Fox as well.
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The Cable Networks spend very little money or time developing and creating documentaries that educate...instead creating programs that are filled with nothing more than 'Opinion' instead. Fox News and MSNBC is nothing more than 'Talk Radio' on TV. No wonder our country has become so polarized.
America deserves better. In the meantime, I will stick to my PBS News Hour.-
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Klarissa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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I have AOL on my screen, with CNN, FOX, MSNBC, AOL and BBC news boxes.
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Always an interesting comparison on the head lines they use, and what some of the stations leave out. For instance, several stations completely ignored the Van Jones resignation, and none commented on the lack of comments by obama on his resignation.
PS, PBS is very good, but there are programs on PBS that are very biased left.
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Commodore13 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm sure the liberals got this "poll information" from WishfulThinking.com. I know the last Nielsen Ratings had FOX News way above all the others combined. I think CNN and MSNBC scored in the high 20's and low 30's. FOX News is like a shining oasis in a sea of liberal arrogance and elitism.
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NoWayMan3 months, 2 weeks ago
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foxnews still gets trounced by Nick at Night.
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and all of cable news gets trounced by the big 3 (abc, nbc, cbs) nightly.
whats clear is...america isn't looking to cable as its main news source (except for fow viewers maybe. but then they're not really looking for news, they're looking for all of their fears and hatreds to be echoed back to them in a news-style format). -
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Charlson3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Overall the credibility of the press is at an all time low and like many factors it mimics society as a whole. Our population has gotten dumber. And so has the press. Many journalist don't even do their homework and research their facts and their ignorance shows. There are still some good, credible, intelligent journalists but none can be found at Fox News.
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eclectic3 months, 1 week ago
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Fox is the voice of the Republican party. MSNBC is the voice of the Democrat party but to a lesser degree. All CNN want are arguments so it is basically neutral. As long as peole are shouting, they are happy. None of them give a true version of the world; their viewers are given what they (the viewers) have already decided to be the truth. PBS is the best by far.
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mrflibble3 months, 1 week ago
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ABC= All By Comrades
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NBC (owned by GE who is kissing Obama but as we speak) is Nothing but Comrades
SeeBs (you mean the people who created fake news stories under Bush are better news people?)
CNN which covers up for Obama, the Communist News Network.
Here's one for you: Which of these has covered the ACORN "ho" scandal...:)
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