Public Policy Polling | Gallup | Pew
The polling organization that accurately predicted the 2012 presidential election — state by state — has completed its fourth annual poll of TV news trust.
Public Policy Polling found that only PBS is trusted more than it is mistrusted. Every other network is mistrusted by more people than trust it.
“Fox News has hit a record low in the four years that we’ve been doing this poll,” PPP reports; “41% of voters trust it to 46% who do not. To put those numbers into some perspective the first time we did this poll, in 2010, 49% of voters trusted it to 37% who did not.”
| Do you trust…? | % trust it | % don’t trust it | % unsure |
| PBS | 52 | 29 | 19 |
| Fox News | 41 | 46 | 13 |
| NBC News | 39 | 42 | 19 |
| CNN | 38 | 43 | 20 |
| MSNBC | 35 | 44 | 21 |
| CBS News | 34 | 43 | 23 |
| ABC | 32 | 42 | 26 |
| Comedy Central | 26 | 46 | 28 |
| Source: PPP telephone interviews of 800 voters from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3, 2013 | |||
When asked directly, “Which TV news outlet do you trust the most?,” respondents chose Fox News as the most trusted, followed by PBS, CNN and ABC. The least trusted were Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and Comedy Central.
The poll split across party lines: “Democrats trust everything except Fox, and Republicans don’t trust anything other than Fox,” PPP found.
A Gallup poll of about 1,000 adults conducted last September showed that 60 percent of Americans distrust the media — a new high (or low, depending on your perspective) that was driven by independents and Republicans.
A Pew survey last July found that among the broadcast networks, ABC, CNN and CBS were the most trusted; Fox News and MSNBC were the least trusted.
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