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The Most 'Distrusted' News Sources In America

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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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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:39 | 5359413 Hard1
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ZH too low on the list to be shown bitchez.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:44 | 5359454 Richard Chesler
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They missed the most distrusted source of all,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:52 | 5359485 Divided States ...
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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

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:57 | 5359499 Save_America1st
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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???

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:01 | 5359521 Harbanger
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You can see why Obola got in twice and Hitlery will be shoe in, the ass.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:09 | 5359563 jet813
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tht;s right Hillary is coming what you gona do now??

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:14 | 5359595 Pool Shark
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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!

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:18 | 5359617 tbone654
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rush limbaugh ranked #1 and thought of as overwhelmingly liberal?  I think these numbers are very skewed...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:30 | 5359669 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

More Pee You Research.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:31 | 5359672 Pinto Currency
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AJ was formed by a group of BBC operatives.

It is simply an extension of the BBC.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:54 | 5359775 WTFRLY
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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...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:10 | 5359865 SWRichmond
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:38 | 5359981 Ariadne
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FOX is a news show? I thought it was Voice of MI6

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:02 | 5360063 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:29 | 5360181 knukles
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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-...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:53 | 5360299 InjectTheVenom
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what about Michael Savage show ?   

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:08 | 5360366 TuesdayBen
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They left off my preferred spin-source: RT

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:42 | 5361644 philipat
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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??

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 16:39 | 5360738 Dublinmick
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You can't guard every well to keep them from putting formaldehyde in them.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:53 | 5361464 TeethVillage88s
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:58 | 5361481 TeethVillage88s
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This Pew Research article is a PsyOp, Right?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:15 | 5359887 The9thDoctor
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:18 | 5359897 edotabin
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"The most trusted name in news"

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:51 | 5360026 boogerbently
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:39 | 5360180 angel_of_joy
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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...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:47 | 5360519 Georgia_Boy
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LOL at Buzzfeed getting the booby prize, an award well deserved!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:40 | 5360248 froze25
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What? No Alex Jones?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:10 | 5359858 JRobby
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Limbaugh is a news source? That's news to me.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:19 | 5359905 The9thDoctor
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He is a "news source" to many, many self-labeled right-wing "dittoheads".

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:37 | 5359977 Duffy
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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.

 

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:31 | 5360186 thebigunit
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"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."

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?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:45 | 5360266 Duffy
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:42 | 5360495 Harbanger
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:40 | 5360246 nobodysfool
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Read the Caption:  % of people that DISTRUST the Source,  75% of Liberals distrust Limbaugh not the other way around. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:45 | 5360507 funthea
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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)).

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 00:10 | 5361729 Dr Brown
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It is the percentage of people who distrust him by ideological group. Oh, never mind.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:55 | 5360548 Pickleton
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Economically collapse.  What you gonna do then?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:19 | 5359618 Freddie
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+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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:33 | 5359954 The9thDoctor
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@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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:34 | 5360194 angel_of_joy
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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 ?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:43 | 5360259 froze25
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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

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:32 | 5361613 o2sd
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Why would I care?

 

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 01:18 | 5362344 Kobe Beef
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Because Cultural Marxism cares about subverting the civilization straight white men built. 

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 08:36 | 5371611 o2sd
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So you are saying you prefer fascism then?

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:34 | 5360206 angel_of_joy
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The Economist IS the Voice of The Establishment. Nothing more, nothing less...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5360912 Reaper
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What percentage distrust polls? Polls are used to instruct the sheeple in correct thinking. Another tool for mind control.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:51 | 5361862 Christophe2
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:24 | 5361589 auntiesocial
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:36 | 5359702 de3de8
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And we are supposed to be surprised

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:21 | 5359914 Stuck on Zero
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What surprises me is when my liberal friends call all the mainstream media "far right." 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 16:03 | 5360583 Pickleton
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Sounds like reason #1 to immediately make them ex-friends.  They're blithering idiots.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:42 | 5359729 midtowng
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I trust Al-Jazeera more than any of the American networks as well. You would be crazy not to.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:46 | 5359750 Alea Iactaest
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DailyKos, bitchez

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:41 | 5360255 angel_of_joy
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Right ! Whatever...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:06 | 5359837 ajax
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Al Jazeera English is a great station. The only problem with Al Jazeera is that it isn't available all over North America.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:47 | 5360512 ajax
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America's censorship adds up to 4 downvotes here ?

American parochialism is beyond belief, you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:54 | 5360546 ajax
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:36 | 5361229 Double.Eagle.Gold
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quit your crying, you god-damned baby.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:06 | 5359846 hot sauce technician
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:54 | 5360007 edotabin
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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.

 

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:11 | 5360378 The Phallic Crusader
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Then again, if you want to know who rules over you... 

 

find out who you can not criticize.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:36 | 5360474 edotabin
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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.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:24 | 5360432 hot sauce technician
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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.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:30 | 5359944 anachronism
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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.)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:45 | 5360267 froze25
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Well they are the orginal "Money Changers"

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:39 | 5359710 magnumpk
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Also notably absent is The Onion

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:44 | 5359740 Omen IV
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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

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:53 | 5359767 BlindMonkey
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:37 | 5360231 thebigunit
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:57 | 5361875 Christophe2
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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!)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:48 | 5359469 pupton
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ZH would be distrusted by the Krugmanites and Pajama Boi crowd. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:52 | 5359482 ZH Snob
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:11 | 5359581 hot sauce technician
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And let's hope it stays that way. Fight club isn't meant to be featured on P(j)ew polls.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:35 | 5359696 indygo55
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Where is RT? Or is that not to be known?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:13 | 5359876 RaceToTheBottom
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:54 | 5359780 Stoploss
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It simply means the survey is flawed...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:12 | 5360103 Ebanga Planti
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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!!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:35 | 5360208 Hal n back
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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

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:23 | 5360430 tempo
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:38 | 5359415 Skateboarder
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Where be ZH? ;-)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:55 | 5359497 Wild Theories
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ZH be in the porn section

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:22 | 5359630 pods
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Under the radar is a good thing. Keeps away (most of the) mouthbreathers.

pods

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:18 | 5360128 brady
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[closes mouth]

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:59 | 5360054 NotApplicable
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I came.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:07 | 5359550 U4 eee aaa
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ZH isn't news, it's TRUTH!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:48 | 5360279 Duffy
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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.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:39 | 5359416 elchupacabra
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Can't believe the BBC did so well.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:41 | 5359438 i_call_you_my_base
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It's the accents. Americans will believe anything said in a british accent.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:58 | 5359505 Winston Churchill
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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..

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:12 | 5359868 RaceToTheBottom
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Did you get any of the 99 million that he got to keep?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:19 | 5359898 Winston Churchill
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:11 | 5359864 JRobby
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Front is a manufactured perception

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:13 | 5359872 Ferrari
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:38 | 5359419 gatorengineer
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Anyone else notice lately that the difference between Fox news, Huffo Po, Drudge, yahoo  and MSNBC is almost Zero?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:42 | 5359443 mayhem_korner
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If you are actually following all of them closely enough to make that inference, you have got more time on your hands than me.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:43 | 5359449 joego1
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Zero News, On a long enough time line your news sources turn to pure propaganda.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:43 | 5359451 i_call_you_my_base
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:35 | 5359689 hot sauce technician
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Funny how you call material from gov/ap press releases "facts".

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:53 | 5359489 ZH Snob
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yes.  opposites do attract.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:37 | 5359707 t0mmyBerg
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:44 | 5360002 Duffy
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:07 | 5360083 NotApplicable
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:46 | 5360265 Tall Tom
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:00 | 5360057 Diogenes of Sinope
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Yes.  My first thought was this shows the power of packaging...the contents are all the same.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 15:08 | 5360369 therearetoomany...
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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. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:41 | 5359422 pan
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Where is ZH on that graph?

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:42 | 5359434 mayhem_korner
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There are no news sources...there are only commentators.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:56 | 5359502 madcows
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replace commentators with propagandists

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:08 | 5359555 baldski
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What do think Faux News is? Truth?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:08 | 5359559 U4 eee aaa
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The opinions represented in our proclaimed unbiased news stories are those of corpogov

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:33 | 5359682 madcows
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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"

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:42 | 5359437 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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To be fair, Al-Jazeera English is a quality news outlet.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:57 | 5359503 johnQpublic
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That and rt

 

Of course rt got removed from cable up here right after the ukraine fiasco started

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:12 | 5359508 Harbanger
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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. Media

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830...

We came we saw he died! Hehehee!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:26 | 5359649 TuPhat
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Al Jazeera is US media.  Hitlery was trying to make them seem otherwise.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:08 | 5360088 NotApplicable
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Well, Qatar, but we know who they are allied with.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:52 | 5360286 Duffy
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:01 | 5361074 bid the soldier...
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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?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:43 | 5359442 gwar5
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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.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 14:55 | 5360307 Equality 7-25-1
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university studies

You're citing the cabal commenting on their own psyops?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:47 | 5359463 screw face
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ZeroHedge #Fukushima

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:57 | 5359464 JustObserving
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:25 | 5359621 Blood Spattered...
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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.

  1. The Economist Group is 50% owned by Pearson PLC via The Financial Times Limited. The bulk of the remaining shares are held by individual shareholders including the Cadbury, Rothschild, Schroder, Agnelli and other family interests as well as a number of staff and former staff shareholders.
Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:37 | 5359701 JustObserving
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:41 | 5359721 Blood Spattered...
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Definitely.  The Economist is a grotesque example of the corporate/security incestual relationship.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:37 | 5361631 TeethVillage88s
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 16:03 | 5360576 r0mulus
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Indeed it is the unfortunate truth:

No news media in the US can be trusted since the 1950s and Operation Mockingbird

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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:47 | 5359466 Bell's 2 hearted
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this video pretty much sums it up

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:51 | 5359472 benb
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“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

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:51 | 5359481 Consuelo
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And the PEE-YOU research center itself...?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:51 | 5359484 seek
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"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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:00 | 5359494 alexcojones
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"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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:56 | 5359495 madcows
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:56 | 5359501 jmcadg
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BBC, please. Unless you mean they can be trusted to spread propaganda. That's a guarantee.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:59 | 5359513 lasvegaspersona
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RT?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:59 | 5359517 taketheredpill
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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.

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:01 | 5359522 alexcojones
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“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 Media

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:26 | 5359652 Freddie
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They whacked Colby because he told the truth a few times.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:45 | 5359746 Big Corked Boots
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Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby.

http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:01 | 5359523 Duffminster
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Not much content to help the shorts today.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:05 | 5359541 Bear
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Daily Kos, Think Progress ... "Most Trusted Names in Media" ... 1984 is upon us

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:07 | 5359545 Bear
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Interesting: 'Consistently Conservative" people, don't trust anyone

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:10 | 5359569 U4 eee aaa
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I don't believe you

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:17 | 5359612 AdmTirpitz
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I don't believe you don't believe it

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 13:25 | 5359923 wtf1369
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Good call, I don't believe he can be trusted myself.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 16:04 | 5360587 U4 eee aaa
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I don't believe myself can be trusted either

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:15 | 5359598 baldski
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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.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:09 | 5359566 U4 eee aaa
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where is that stupid all of the above button?!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 12:17 | 5359608 Blood Spattered...
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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.

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