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The Most 'Distrusted' News Sources In America
You know there's a problem with the media when Al-Jazeera is trusted more than NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. As Pew research's Journalism Project shows in the following table, the study attempted to measure not just whether people had heard of a variety of news sources, but which ones they really trusted when it came time to get straight info about politics and governments.
From "most distrusted" to least...
As Pew Research's Journalism Project reports,
There is not a single news source distrusted by at least half of all panelists or those with mixed or mostly conservative views. Six sources are distrusted 50% or more of consistent conservatives distrust and four are distrusted by most consistent liberals.
It's worth keeping in mind when reading the table that the 'distrust' numbers may be low for some less well known outlets mainly because most respondents have never heard of them, rather than because most respondents do trust them.
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ZH too low on the list to be shown bitchez.
They missed the most distrusted source of all,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room
CNBC must be up there also...I mean look at the guests they had on this week, Isaacson, Einhorn, Cooperman, Daniel Gilbert, Dean Kamen, a bunch of new social media CEOs like Tinder, I mean EVERY FUCKIN GUESTS are Jews. WTF
that entire table is total bullshit. Who did they poll? A bunch of college pussies from Columbia University and the studio audience of Oprah Winfrey???
You can see why Obola got in twice and Hitlery will be shoe in, the ass.
tht;s right Hillary is coming what you gona do now??
I'm really not concerned with what a majority of Sheeple think about anything.
After all; a majority of Sheeple put TOTUS in office,... TWICE!
rush limbaugh ranked #1 and thought of as overwhelmingly liberal? I think these numbers are very skewed...
Listen.
More Pee You Research.
AJ was formed by a group of BBC operatives.
It is simply an extension of the BBC.
US Citizen, Press TV reporter dead in car crash near Syria 2 days after Turkey calls her a spy
http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/20/us-citizen-press-tv-reporter-dead-in-car-cr...
Daily Show and Colbert Report are news programs? In what alternative universe? They are propaganda shows, intended to use comedy to get people to relax and agree.
FOX is a news show? I thought it was Voice of MI6
All your doomsday crap and the markets are bullish!! WTF I sold my GILD at $95 and its at $105. You basturds! I knew i should have followed my instincts. Zero H is right 1% of the time.
Meanwhile, Ebola continues to spread.
Just not on the MSM, for some unknown reason (my ass)
http://weaselzippers.us/203103-ebola-spreading-like-wildfire-in-western-...
what about Michael Savage show ?
They left off my preferred spin-source: RT
Yes, I noticed that too. I think RT is a little like Voldemort; it cannot be mentioned by name. Either that or it scored so well that it got taken out as being too embarassing, especially in the present anti-Russian operation??
You can't guard every well to keep them from putting formaldehyde in them.
Fox might be the voice for MI-6, or a British Raj, or other banking-spy agency...
A Russian Plane Crash Story with French MP or PM gets major play... but not plane crash with Libertarian Senate Candidate, a Doctor, experienced pilot in a plane that can land with out any power at all... in a tight Senate Race between Big Money Candidates....
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/iowa-candidate-us-senate-dies-p...
9 Days old now... no traction, no public report.
This Pew Research article is a PsyOp, Right?
It's good to see Faux News as one of the most distrusted sources, but it's VERY ALARMING to see George Soros' ThinkProgress as the most trusted source.
Soros is most likely the one funding this BS poll.
I'm glad Drudge Report is close to the trusted side of the spectrum, because honestly that's my favorite source.
"The most trusted name in news"
You are an example.
It's all "confirmation bias".
Least trusted or most trusted, by the people who listen and believe.
Trusted by the sheep that elected obama....twice !
No objective parameters for accuracy or honesty.
I call BS on this entire "research". Fox News is the most "distrusted" news channel, more than MSNBC (hard to believe) or CNN, however when it comes to audiences it constantly KILLS everybody else combined. Not only that, but it has done it consistently for the last 10 years. You can take this research and shove it...
LOL at Buzzfeed getting the booby prize, an award well deserved!
What? No Alex Jones?
Limbaugh is a news source? That's news to me.
He is a "news source" to many, many self-labeled right-wing "dittoheads".
Limbaugh is not nearly as bad as he is made out to be. In fact, he is villified mostly because of what he's said about women/feminists, and secondly, because he will at times make cogent points/arguments in a humour way.
I don't agree with a great deal of what he says, but he's entertaining and makes some decent points - at least in my view.
Beck and Hannity are blithering idiots.... but so are Maddow and Olbermann.
I get a lot of my news from reason.com and wish there were more broadly libertarian/paleocon/classical liberal sites.
So, you're trying to get the New York Times readers to like you?
I agree with very much of what Limbaugh reports.
You got a problem with that?
No, I'm trying to get you to like me.
Very much?
I expect you're a bit of a fathead then, and not particularly well read.
Prove me wrong, Mr. Johnson.
He's right in that political correctness has made people dance around issues and what they really believe, That's what I got from what you wrote. It's so 90's, dude. Take a fucking stance one way or another, you will be more respected.
Read the Caption: % of people that DISTRUST the Source, 75% of Liberals distrust Limbaugh not the other way around.
rush limbaugh ranked #1 and thought of as overwhelmingly liberal? I think these numbers are very skewed...
I think you and others are reading the chart wrong. The lables of mostly liberal/conservitive was regarding the the people giving the answers to who they distrusted most, i.e., those who voted Rush the most distrusted majorily identified themselves as liberals (75% of the respondents who voted Rush number 1)).
It is the percentage of people who distrust him by ideological group. Oh, never mind.
Economically collapse. What you gonna do then?
+1
The Economist was good once but is a Red Shield op. NPR, PBS and the BBC? Insanely liberal. BBC thinks all whites (except their newsreaders, editors and fellow travellers) are evil.
@Freddie
The anti-white agenda is so blatantly obvious in the new Doctor Who. Amy was the only companion thus far, in the decade-long new series, to have a white boyfriend, then husband.
If one of his companions had a black dude, that would make sense to get the show up to modern times, but when all of them do, it's definitely a race baiting agenda.
Watching an UK series, ANY series (or movie for that matter), is even more painfull than watching an American one... Why would Doctor Who be an exception ?
Lets not forget how they push the Homosexual agenda as just a regular behavior thing that people do all the time across the board on the BBC
Why would I care?
Because Cultural Marxism cares about subverting the civilization straight white men built.
So you are saying you prefer fascism then?
The Economist IS the Voice of The Establishment. Nothing more, nothing less...
What percentage distrust polls? Polls are used to instruct the sheeple in correct thinking. Another tool for mind control.
Exactly. This MSM-sourced 'poll' is telling the reader that The Economist is trusted by 98% of respondents?
LOL. The results from that BS poll are what TPTB fucking WISH was the reality today.
I remember the exact moment when I woke up- it was 2003ish and Bill OReilly was blindly sticking up for 43 about WMD's. The reason I didn't "wake up" earlier is coz I was making paper back then and didn't have time to question all the bullshit. What is going to create jobs again? robotics? 3Dprinting? fuck, I need help.
And we are supposed to be surprised
What surprises me is when my liberal friends call all the mainstream media "far right."
Sounds like reason #1 to immediately make them ex-friends. They're blithering idiots.
I trust Al-Jazeera more than any of the American networks as well. You would be crazy not to.
DailyKos, bitchez
Right ! Whatever...
Al Jazeera English is a great station. The only problem with Al Jazeera is that it isn't available all over North America.
America's censorship adds up to 4 downvotes here ?
American parochialism is beyond belief, you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Be afraid America, be afraid:
http://www.aljazeera.com/
The four downvotes on my post have never ever even watched Al Jazeera. Wankers with keyboards.
quit your crying, you god-damned baby.
Jews in America are stupid. They want to be "influential" and "successful", so they adopt the progressive bullshit ideology of the day and promote it for the elites, yet all they end up doing is becoming an easy target for frustrated masses.
Stupid? Really? I would venture to say the opposite. Besides, your logic is flawed.
A very liberal ideology is promoted to confuse, obfuscate and hide behind. Naturally anyone who questions that ideology is a racist, sexist and (fill in the blank) __________ist.
On the other hand, to say that the ones orchestrating this would leave themelves open to easily becoming the "target" is flawed. Even if the orchestrators were a "target", they are not accessible, especially by people like you. Chances are, the easier the "target" (your choice of words, not mine) the less they have anything to do with anything.
Then again, if you want to know who rules over you...
find out who you can not criticize.
I was discussing stupidity. If the higer levels can get stupid people to do their bidding, that is smart and not stupid. The useful idiots wind up being exposed while the "inner circle" moves on or continues to obfuscate via other means.
That's not the point. It doesn't matter what the ideology is as long as it's the du jour. In pre ww1 Germany you had Jews developing chemical weapons for "the glory of Germany " . 35,000 Jews served in Kaiser's army. Were they liberals? Many in fact converted to Christianity.
All the MSM Jews mentioned above are just pawns and mouthpieces. They're playing TPTB's game because that's their ticket to "success". In the meantime on the streets jews are starting to feel the heat. A rabbi was shot dead on his way to synagogue 3 months ago in Miami. A school in Baltimore was firebombed earlier this month. Minimum wage slaves, who are predominantly goyim, are seeing the material success and reacting.
That's why Jews are stupid. They should either bolt or lie low. History is a fine lesson provider. IMO there's going to be a mass exodus to Israel as the SHTF as there's one taking place from Europe right now. That's the only place they'll be able to park and defend their wealth.
The Jews dominate both CNBC and Bloomberg for the simple reason that they control the Financial sector of the USA and of the entire EU, as well as other English-speaking countries. So, the predominance of Jews on these stations is really nothing more than an accurate reflection of their domination of this sector.
"I care not for who makes the laws in this country. He, who has the gold, rules." (Attribution to Rothschild during the Victorian era.)
Well they are the orginal "Money Changers"
Also notably absent is The Onion
and RT is left out also - probably they dont want to see the answer
i would rate RT very high given the panels and dialog
watch it more than all the rest put together
I believe the onion's stories more than MSNBCs. No sarc either. At least I know good and damn well that the Onion is INTENDED to be satire.
I like satire and irony.
But the limitation of satire is that you only end up knowing what is probably NOT true, but it never informs you of what IS true.
Let me spell it out for you: the irony is that the Onion is a preferred news source, compared to ALL the fucking MSM outlets listed on that BS poll.
But yes, what you mention is one of the limitations with having nothing but scumbag manipulative propaganda garbage 'news' sources: we get to know what is probably NOT true, but not much more than that.
(but then luckily there is the internet!)
ZH would be distrusted by the Krugmanites and Pajama Boi crowd.
if it's popular you can bet the boys have their hooks in deep.
1. blackmail
2. pay-offs
3. threats
4. and if none of the above work, death and replacement.
And let's hope it stays that way. Fight club isn't meant to be featured on P(j)ew polls.
Where is RT? Or is that not to be known?
I was looking for that one as well. That would have been one of the few points of data that would have provided interesting discussion, I think.
It simply means the survey is flawed...
Is this list a dream or a reality. Maybe you need to chart it again in another form for better comprehension. IF NOT, IT JUST MADE ME SICK. EBOLA!!
this survey was a waste of time, money and internet space.
who ever heard of liberals likeing Rush or Beck--or conservative liking MSNBC
a great big
DUH
I watch it, its pretty good, not so many blond hotties w 6 in spiked heels w their legs crossed trying to show off their great legs.
Where be ZH? ;-)
ZH be in the porn section
Under the radar is a good thing. Keeps away (most of the) mouthbreathers.
pods
[closes mouth]
I came.
ZH isn't news, it's TRUTH!
where's 4chan?
You have to dig through a pile of shit, but there is some gold there.
And I suspect Satoshi posts a lot of lactation porn, which, it turns out, is a thing.
Can't believe the BBC did so well.
It's the accents. Americans will believe anything said in a british accent.
Worked very well in my biz.
Even better for my black sheep cousin, in jail for a $100m fraud.
He will be fine when he gets out in 2315, joining the board of JPM prolly..
Did you get any of the 99 million that he got to keep?
No. Uncle Scam has seized everything thats findable.
They renditioned him from his island getaway as well, as there was no extradition treaty.
He did not allow for that trick.
Front is a manufactured perception
I cannot believe NPR did so well. Is it even a US organization? Hell, NYT is almost less bias for both the banksters & their favorite nation than NPR.
Anyone else notice lately that the difference between Fox news, Huffo Po, Drudge, yahoo and MSNBC is almost Zero?
If you are actually following all of them closely enough to make that inference, you have got more time on your hands than me.
Zero News, On a long enough time line your news sources turn to pure propaganda.
The facts are all the same, because they just recycle press releases from the government (or from AP, etc, which is where they come from). The angles / interpretations are the only thing that changes.
Funny how you call material from gov/ap press releases "facts".
yes. opposites do attract.
Fox news is awful, but it is still better than any of the other majors. I will take Al Jazeera or RT any day to get a view on news over any of the domestics. The Fourth Estate is well and truly dead. Gone and missing. Absolutely utterly worthless. It is why I will not watch anything on those channels, even sports.
just notice th enews in general - they will all stop covering e. ukraine, say, at the same time - all cover the same news stories, more or less from the same, pro Washington/ pro-Israel / iconophilic perspective.
If most of the MSM is not literally being directly controlled - then some form of soft power or indirect influence is making it appear that way.
Stark difference, too - with people under say 30. I bet they get their nws from more online sources and are pronse ti distrust corporate media....
Which means the internet will have controls put on it sooner than some might think.
You're forgetting the internet (like any tool) is a double-edged sword. Why would you attempt to control/shutdown the best divide and conquer tool ever? Besides, you don't have to censor any source (like ZH, for instance). All you have to do is to smear it as propaganda.
The only controls I see will be enforcement of terrorism laws against anything peer-to-peer. Organizing/managing impromptu protests via Twitter? Well, that's conspiracy, and your cell-phone is now an anti-government weapon to be seized along with your ass.
They attempted to shut down Wikileaks. They shut it down and then Five or Six Mirror sites simultaneously emerged within hours.
It cannot be done. ZH will be mirrored all over the place if they are so foolish to attempt it.
So they villify us as Conspiracy Theorists?
Well fuck them.
We are not on that list for a reason.
Just #askJPM.
Yes. My first thought was this shows the power of packaging...the contents are all the same.
Limbaugh can be a real blowhard but many times he's right on. One of the things he consistently does is show how the talking points are circulated throughout the media by playing snipits of all the newscasts and sunday shows, including Foxnews, where they all read the same lines. Say the same thing. It's fucked up I tell you....and regular people don't notice.
Where is ZH on that graph?
Japan Downgrades View on Economy Again - WSJ
There are no news sources...there are only commentators.
replace commentators with propagandists
What do think Faux News is? Truth?
The opinions represented in our proclaimed unbiased news stories are those of corpogov
I wish every news cast was forced to begin its program with a disclaimer: "the following information is not news or truth. it is propaganda packaged in the form of news for the expressed intent of manipulating the audience to behave in a way that the program producers deems beneficial"
To be fair, Al-Jazeera English is a quality news outlet.
That and rt
Of course rt got removed from cable up here right after the ukraine fiasco started
I guess you agree with Hillary. Hitlery 2016 for the Win.
Here it is from a trusted source,
Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Mediahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830...
We came we saw he died! Hehehee!
Al Jazeera is US media. Hitlery was trying to make them seem otherwise.
Well, Qatar, but we know who they are allied with.
There may be more American Jews than Arabs in editorial at AJE.
Why on earth would there be a disproportionate amount of American Jews, 2.5% of the US population, on an Arab-owned news channel?
I'm asking seriously.
There are many 'self loathing' Jews here and in Europe or else the ADL would not have promoted the campaign of labeling them that decades ago.
The fact that you don't hear Jews critical of Israel and AIPAC called SLJs any more probably means that attack was counter productive.
My question is do the Jews not see their disproportionate numbers in banking, finance, publishing, entertainment, etc?
Or do they see it and not care about the consequences of everyone seeing it?
Propaganda is working.
Two university studies a couple years ago by UCLA and University of Chicago showed the most centrist news organizations were: WSJ, IBD, and Fox news.
The likes of NYT, WaPo, LAT, CBS, ABC, NBC were all way out there liberal land. NYT and CBS were the farthest left, almost off the scale.
university studies
You're citing the cabal commenting on their own psyops?
ZeroHedge #Fukushima
No news media in the US can be trusted since the 1950s and Operation Mockingbird:
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
Economist is owned by the CIA:
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html
A July 26 editorial in the Economist declared Putin to be the author of MH17’s destruction, while the magazine ghoulishly superimposed Putin’s face over a spider web on its front cover, denouncing Putin’s “web of lies.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/18/ukmh-a18.html
You can now subscribe to the print version of the Economist for only $20 a year but that is still $100 too much given its propaganda.
Speaking of the Economist (per Wikipedia):
*Edit to add: It's ironic how the Economist is so trusted when looking at their owners. Very telling indeed.
The CIA controls the content of the Economist. So it figuratively owns it, not literally. Almost all Western media are propaganda outlets for the CIA:
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director
And that was in the 1970s. The CIA's budget and control have both grown immensely since then.
Definitely. The Economist is a grotesque example of the corporate/security incestual relationship.
JustObserving; The Goal to Remove Putin.
You represent a country, but don't play ball... Now you will play ball or be replaced.
Yes, Clear.
Indeed it is the unfortunate truth:
After the Church Commission, however, they moved to "privatize" their sources of funding, which the US public got a small sniff of during Iran-Contra and Gary Webb's Dark Alliance saga. Now it's just called InQTel/Stratfor/Blackwater/Xe/Academi/Craft.
this video pretty much sums it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
– William Colby, former CIA director
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
– James Angleton, head of CIA counter intelligence from 1954-1974
And the PEE-YOU research center itself...?
"It's worth keeping in mind when reading the table that the 'distrust' numbers may be low for some less well known outlets mainly because most respondents have never heard of them, rather than because most respondents do trust them."
No kidding, that Thinkprogress and Daily Kos were at the top had me slack-jawed. Plunk your average Rush listener in front of those sites and their head will explode.
For a major outlet, Al Jaz has a surprising amount of respect. I've heard more than once from someone that thought it was the Jihadi News Network, watched it, and now it's their go-to source.
"We will know our disinformation program is complete-
when everything the American public believes is false."
William Casey, CIA Director, from notes taken in a 1981 CIA staff meeting, (that wasn't intended to be heard or repeated outside the room.)
Be Your Own News Source.
So, the glen beck program is distrusted, but his "Blaze" network is trusted?
also, not surprising that given the large progressive/liberal population that Fox and Hannity etc... would be towards the top.
also, a lesson in ignorance. NBC, which has a history of lying and modifying/cutting 911 tapes (Travon) to willfully make it appear racist, wasn't Distrusted all that much.
BBC, please. Unless you mean they can be trusted to spread propaganda. That's a guarantee.
RT?
How many viewers would watch a "head to head" format? On both Fox and MSNBC you could have a split screen and watch a simulcast on the same story.
Like Top Chef or something.
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, "Oh, sure, all the time."
Notable Quotes about FED and MediaThey whacked Colby because he told the truth a few times.
Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby.
http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html
Not much content to help the shorts today.
Daily Kos, Think Progress ... "Most Trusted Names in Media" ... 1984 is upon us
Interesting: 'Consistently Conservative" people, don't trust anyone
I don't believe you
I don't believe you don't believe it
Good call, I don't believe he can be trusted myself.
I don't believe myself can be trusted either
They can't help it. Research by the London School of Medicine shows that their amygdalas are different from liberal people. This is part of the brain's limbic system which processes fear or flee. They fear things all the time.
where is that stupid all of the above button?!
I would be skeptical about anything Pew puts out there. One would have to be naive to think these major polling institutions are not also infiltrated by other interests.
In other words, if Pew says 17% it's probably closer to 50%. If a sheep sees "17%" next to their favorite smut-peddling news gang, they'll walk away feeling good that 83% of people are "like them", and see nothing wrong with this (intended consequence). These polls cater to the herd mentality, and this data is essentially worthless.