Poll: Fox now most trusted news in America

A new poll says Fox News Channel (FNC) is now the most trusted news source in America with 27%, beating out CNN which came in at 14.6%. Fox has made substantial gains because it was ranked 14.6% behind CNN at 23.8% in 2003.

Rankings of news outlets were:

- Fox News, 27%
- CNN, 14.6%
- NBC News, 10.9%
- ABC News, 7%
- Local News, 6.9%
- CBS News, 6.8%
- MSNBC, 4%
- PBS News, 3%
- CNBC, 0.6%
- CBN, 0.5%

The report went on to say:

“Americans know bias and imbalance when they see it and they don’t like it. When most service organizations strive for consumer satisfaction ratings in the high eighties to low nineties, an overall positive rating of 40.7% is dismal,” said Jerry C. Lindsley, director of the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. He added, “Americans know that it’s just not that hard to present both sides and keep personal bias at home.”

By four-to-one margins, Americans surveyed see The New York Times (41.9% to 11.8%) and National Public Radio (40.3% to 11.2%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

By a three-to-one margin, Americans see news media journalists and broadcasters (45.4% to 15.7%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

And, by a two-to-one margin, Americans see CNN (44.9% to 18.4%) and MSNBC (38.8% to 15.8%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

Just Fox News was seen as mostly and somewhat conservative (48.7%) over mostly or somewhat liberal (22.3%).

It is nice to have a news network that presents both sides of an issue, and that is what Fox News does. Perhaps America has noticed even as Democrat presidential candidates have chosen to boycott debating on Fox, responding to their extreme left wing of the party.