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Friday, October 2, 2015

Survey: Fox News "Most Trusted" National Source

Nearly a quarter of U.S. voters say Fox News is the television news or commentary source they trust the most, putting the network ahead of its cable news and network rivals on that front.

Twenty-three percent of voters named Fox News as the TV news or commentary source they trust the most, according to a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll released this week.

CNN was second at 15 percent, followed by NBC at 10 percent and CBS at 9 percent.

ABC was at 6 percent, followed by MSNBC at 5 percent, Comedy Central at 4 percent, and C-SPAN at 3 percent. About a quarter were undecided.

The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Sept. 24-28 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

TV news viewers consider local news the most consistently trusted source of news and see Fox as the most trusted source among national TV outlets, according to a survey released Monday by Quinnipiac University.

In the survey, 19% of respondents said they trusted local TV "a great deal," while 52% responded "somewhat."

"Fox News may be the most trusted in the network and cable news race, but they all take a back seat to your local news," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Underscoring cable news' more overtly political slant, 26% of respondents also said they didn't trust Fox News "at all" as a news source, the highest among the national TV news outlets mentioned in the survey. MSNBC came in second at 24%.

Not surprisingly, Fox News is preferred by Republican respondents. Fifty-eight percent of GOP voters said they trust Fox the most, while 13% prefer CNN.

Democrats prefer CNN (32%) over Fox News (3%) and NBC (15%).

Americans' trust in TV news is eroding, the survey showed. Nearly half – 48% - said network TV news is "less trustworthy than in the days of Walter Cronkite" while 35% said it is about as trustworthy.

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