Poll reveals FOX news most trusted news in America - Page 9

On January 27 2010 22:31 Jibba wrote:
Enough is enough. The only thing this poll is showing me is how stupid the average TL member is.

You're all able to go "har har, Americans are so dumb, they trust bad news" yet the vast majority of people just assumed the poll was accurately conducted (which, if you read the title, you should immediately realize how absurdly impossible it is to prove) and never bothered to look at the easily accessible information source. There's probably a good portion of you that never even clicked the first link.

On January 28 2010 00:08 Velr wrote:
I try to watch the news on national TV and read/overview 1-3 magazins dayli. And none of them is even half as biased as Foxnews, in any direction.

The first time I saw Foxnews on Youtube I thought it was a comedy show (Bill'o'Reilly)... Then i learned that it was *real* and it got even more fun...

On January 28 2010 00:22 baubo wrote:



The reason why people would vote Fox News is because people who hate Fox News don't watch TV. Cable TV news is for older, mid-Americans. Younger people probably get most of their news from non-news shows like Stewart/Colbert/Other late night hosts. Your average teenager or 20ish American doesn't give a fuck about anything related to the government. So quite frankly, our opinions don't even matter to polls like this. Because we don't care enough to matter.

For those who do care enough to actually sit through hours of news programming, Fox News is what they like. http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news

I personally grew up on PBS/NPR. I used to listen to NPR a lot when driving, and I'd always try to catch the News Hour if I had time. I knew of one other person my age who also listen/watch the news. In general, younger people just don't give a damn. And it forces news channels to cater to the audience who do watch: conservative, old, not-so-trendy people of mid-America. And these people like Beck/Rush/Hannity/O'Reilly.

On January 28 2010 00:22 baubo wrote:
Your average teenager or 20ish American doesn't give a fuck about anything related to the government. So quite frankly, our opinions don't even matter to polls like this. Because we don't care enough to matter.

On January 28 2010 00:24 Scorcher2k wrote:



I completely agree and it's sad... I listen to NPR often as well and I get my news from simply going on google news and looking at multiple sources of coverage for whatever story I'm reading about until I feel like I can paint a somewhat unbiased picture of whatever happened. People all over the world just love to be hand fed everything and FOX does just that.

On January 27 2010 23:33 lightman wrote:
wow FOX news ? this sucks !

question for al TLers: what news do you watch ?

I mostly Bloomberg and CNBC, cause I work in finance.

On January 28 2010 01:47 BlackJack wrote:
btw in case people aren't aware, (and it seems like there are more than a few that aren't), a lot of Fox News programming isn't even meant to be unbiased these days and a lot of it isn't even meant to be News. Beck/Hannity/Huckabee/ and soon Palin make no secret of the fact that they are conservative. This should not be news considering Palin and Huckabee both made runs for the white house on the Republican ticket and Hannity/Beck have been on talk radio for several years, etc. Basically, if you tune into FoxNews during primtetime expecting to find some unbiased news you're completely oblivious. Just like Olbermann/Maddow make no secret of being liberal. These are OPINIONATED SHOWS. Olbermann recently referred to Scott Brown as a homophobic, sexist, racist, supporter of violence against woman. He is just as bad or worse than anyone on FoxNews yet everyone on the left loves him, just like everyone on the left loves John Stewart. So clearly it's not about despising unbiased cable news, because if that was true Keith Olbermann would be just as hated as Sean Hannity instead of being hailed as a "truth teller." It's really all about despising unbiased cable news that don't align with people's political views. MSNBC watchers are no better than the "ignorant redneck / xbox live playing / gun owners" that watch FoxNews.