New Survey Shows Americans Trust Traditional News Sources Most

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[sonsofliberty2000]

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[mtbopfuyn]

From The Onion?

[R.W.Ratikal]

Long article. Sorry but "trust" is not an objective thing that can be measured like the fuel level in your car. A better indication of which news sources the public trusts lies elsewhere.

If "most" Americans trust the traditional media why is it that newspapers are hemmer aging readers, network TV is in last place compared with cable news, and why are traditional authors who are politically correct ignored on the best seller list? Huh? Huh?

[Dog]

It was a poll taken of Congressional staffers.......LOL!

[Congressman Billybob]

This is NOT a random survey. You have to volunteer for Harris Interactive. And self-selection is one way to skew any poll right down the dumper. And notice that the bad news this poll does find, about trust for the media, is buried in a double-negative statement of its conclusions. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

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[Indy Pendance]

Congressional staffers? LOL!

[Milhous]

To each his own. Hard for me to believe any Olds Media story until an independent source trusted by me confirms the story.

[federal]

A new and elaborate method to show how rightous the MSM is.

(1). Let's see there are more people not less interested in the news.
(2). There are more people not less who consider the MSM the most reliable source of that news.

Isn't this just remarkable especially since all the MSM sources including TV and newspaper are on longterm downslopes with respect to the circulation numbers of their customers........

Perhaps some fool with the media and this Polling (propaganda) company can explain that to me.........

[Noachian]

Most Trusted: Tried and True Traditional Media Despite some talk of a media landscape dominated by blogs and Internet chat rooms, the survey finds that the most trusted news sources are the tried and true -- public TV and radio programming, national newspapers and commercial broadcast news.

If this paragraph is true then why was this poll taken in the first place? Why is newspaper readership down, why does cable TV outrank the networks, and why are blogs on the media ascendancy?

[Patriot Hooligan]

So why post the results online if the web isn't trusted?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

... Sixty-one percent of general consumers, along with 70 percent of congressional staffers and 75 percent of executives, trust news shows on public television or National Public Radio....

My god, we're surrounded by imbeciles!

[kinghorse]

Yeah they trust CBS News. No agenda there. Why don't they rename CBS QBS Read on
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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

New Survey Shows Americans Trust Traditional News Sources Most

Yeah right, that's why newspaper circulation is in the dumper, and the alphabet network news are in a panic over their declining ratings.

[RamingtonStall]

Ref: Yeah right, that's why newspaper circulation is in the dumper, and the alphabet network news are in a panic over their declining ratings.

Are you going to trust this high powered Survey or are you going to trust your lying eyes?
RamS

[LegendHasIt]

Hey, I got an idea for another poll:

Let's take a poll to see if the average person trusts polls.... or even cares what the polls say enough to change their beliefs or behavior.

[WilliamWallace1999]

Americans Trust Traditional News Sources Most

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Would someone interpret this for me, like what are they saying?

[Milhous]

So why post the results online if the web isn't trusted?

Good question. Among other things PRSA/Harris Interactive trolled me into building a little shrine to Olds Media - a work of art known as Got Them Circulation Blues:

Newspaper circulation down. Sanfrancisco Chronicle down 17% - 11/08/2005
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline (NY Daily News DOWN 1.5% - May 2005) - 10/24/2005
Bored readers cutting off Globe’s circulation - 10/20/2005
Time Inc. Gets A U.S. Subpoena About Circulation - 09/24/2005
Denver papers use liberal rules to boost circulation - 08/08/2005
Advertisers Sue 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' Over Circulation Inflation - 06/29/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation (Down, down, down) - 05/02/2005
Belo Begins Refunding Advertisers Over Inflated Circulation Figures (Texas) - 05/02/2005
Why Can’t the Washington Post Keep Circulation Up? - 07/23/2004
Newsday, Hoy publishers retire amid circulation scandal - 07/19/04
Publishers Seek Scapegoats for Circulation Woes - 07/05/2004
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004

[JohnnyZ]

I trust the WS Journal and, I guess, Fox News, though I don't watch it much.

But I trust most major media for the facts of a situation, though sometimes you have to sift through BS and bias to get to the facts.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

These surveys are always on the money, especially the AP ones that ask 800 people in a liberal area of the country and then apply the percentages to 300 million Americans.