Showing posts with label Journal-isms. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Prince Discusses Fox News Credibility In Journal-isms Column

The credibility of Fox News has generally been in question, but has gone in the toilet since the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States.

Since the election of President Obama, Fox News seemingly has gone "all in" as far as its support for conservative causes and Republican/Tea Party candidates.

This is reflected, to some extent, in a column entry written by Richard Prince (you may have to scroll down a bit):

"PPP's annual look at the public's trust in various TV news outlets finds that Fox News' credibility is on the decline, that the traditional networks are seeing an up tick in their numbers, and that PBS is at the top of the heap," the group Public Policy Polling reported Wednesday.

"A year ago a plurality of Americans said they trusted Fox News. Now a plurality of them don't. Conservatives haven't moved all that much — 75% said they trusted it last year and 72% still do this time around.

"But moderates and liberals have both had a strong increase in their level of distrust for the network — a 12 point gain from 48% to 60% for moderates and a 16 point gain from 66% to 82% for liberals. Voters between left and center tend to be more trusting of the media across the board, which is why a fair number of them were still rating Fox favorably even a year ago at this time. But it looks like with a lot of those folks it has finally crossed the line to being too political to trust."

Fox News has become largely untrustworthy. Conservatives find the trust as Fox News validates the right-wing opinions of Republicans/Tea Party folks.