CNN ‘Most Believable’ News Organization: Pew Research Survey
Network Tops MSNBC, FNC In Biennial Survey
By Larry Barrett -- Multichannel News, 8/19/2008 7:40:00 AM
CNN was ranked the most trusted news organization in the U.S. by respondents to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Seventy percent of those surveyed gave CNN the highest rankings for believability, the most for any broadcast or cable news network, according to the Pew Research Center, followed by MSNBC at 63% and Fox News Channel with 59%.
CNN also ranked highest in credibility with 30% of respondents giving it a top rating compared to 24% and 23% for MSNBC and FNC, respectively.
Not surprisingly, the audiences for specific cable news outlets remain divided along political lines. Currently 51% of regular CNN viewers are Democrats, up from 45% two years ago. Nearly four-in-ten regular Fox News viewers are Republicans (39%), about the same as in 2006.
Online, CNN.com was cited as the most frequented news site—aside from Web portals such as Google and Yahoo—with 17% of respondents naming it as the site they turn to for news and information compared to 10% for MSNBC.com and 7% for FNC.
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I used to live by what CNN hosts reported. Now, their opinions and sometimes arrogance by hosts Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown leave me searching for other news outlets. Campbell Brown "reads" well, but her facial expressions seem frozen and not sincere. Just smiling doesn't do it for me. MSNBC is the channel of choice.
Vi Brown - 4/30/2010 6:39:34 PM EDT -
typical liberall bull they put fox news the only one thats fair and balanced dead last! those other networks have clear liberall biases and are in the tanks for baraq obama! i aint voting for that uppity elitist!
proud american - 9/14/2008 8:53:00 PM EDT -
I can''t believe any polls CNN put out especially that McCain is ahead in most likly voters. Everybody knows CNN is in the tank with McCain. Who ever took the Poll probably called most republican or old people. We have too many people with cell phone that are use for home telephone you don''t have. There are so many new young voter with numbers you don''t have. So why don''t you do everybody a favor and shutup. I like the rest of the world, If the American people want G. Bush then give them G. Bush and all his mess we now have. If they want McCain then give the American people McCain. Because for some reason it always too late when the American people find out their mistake and nonally too late do anything about it. I just hope those people that were called for the poll make sure their sons and daughter are ready to go to war.
robret mitchel - 8/20/2008 1:59:00 PM EDT
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