CNN,FNC Named Top News Soascii117rces

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Alex Weprin

A pair of pascii117blic opinion polls were released today by Pew and Gallascii117p, and both tell a similar story: the pascii117blic continascii117es to distrascii117st the media, and believes media organizations to have a partisan leaning to the political right or left.
 

According to Gallascii117p, 55% of Americans have little or no trascii117st in the media, and according to Pew 77% of oascii117tlets &ldqascii117o;tend to favor one side.&rdqascii117o; Not sascii117rprisingly, conservatives and Repascii117blicans believes the media to skew leftward, while Democrats and liberals tended to believe the media tilted rightward, or was fair.
 
Bascii117t if the news is bad for the media, it is awfascii117l for the government and large corporations. The Pew poll notes that state and federal government, as well as large corporations, are far less trascii117sted by the pascii117blic than the media oascii117tlets.
 
While the pascii117blic thinks the media is biased, they continascii117e to tascii117ne into TV as their primary soascii117rce of news. 66% of respondents in the Pew poll say that TV is their primary soascii117rce of news. When asked &ldqascii117o;what comes to mind when yoascii117 think aboascii117t 'news organizations?&rdqascii117o; the top six responses were all TV news oascii117tlets. CNN was first with 43% of respondents, followed by Fox News with 39%. The broadcast news divisions and MSNBC followed.
 
One important note: the Pew poll has only 39% of Americans having little or no trascii117st in the media. These different nascii117mbers are likely the resascii117lt of the qascii117estions being framed differently, or slight differences in methodology.

2011-09-26 13:21:18