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MSNBC the Least Trusted TV News Source Among All Americans

by Andrew Kirell | 10:26 am, June 10th, 2014

Every news network likes to claim the mantle of “the most trusted name in news,” and a new Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute poll seeks to demonstrate who actually does and does not deserve that claim. Among many insights we can take from the survey, perhaps the most interesting is that, among all TV news sources, MSNBC is identified as “most trusted” by the fewest people.

The New Republic looked at the data and gleaned that Fox News, while the “most trusted,” also had the most deeply polarized fanbase, largely made up of “the Republican Party’s most conservative members.” Self-identified Democrats spread their “trust” among most TV news outlets (with Fox at only 6%), while Republicans are largely concentrated on Fox News (unsurprising if you followed the emergence of conservative media and “media bias” discussions in the 1990s).

The survey also demonstrates a disparity between how most Americans view an issue like immigration and how Fox’s viewership understands the topic (see below chart):