Really. According to Public Policy Polling, via Taegan Goddard:
Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News. Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust
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The tailgating begins today, at noon, when perhaps thousands of conservative and libertarian activists will walk the halls of Congress in protest of health care reform. Conservative YouTube populist Michele Bachmann described the whole idea on with Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson. (Fun fact: Bachmann used to babysit Carlson in Anoka, …
More evidence that a Daily Show’s little left toe is more compelling than all the YouTube muscle at Media Matters. A Fox take down for the ages:
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Someone needs to explain to a few conservative bloggers what satire looks like. Your first clue might be when it mentions dates that are in the future.
Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue.
But I don’t understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity the opportunity for still greater spasms of self-inflation by declaring war on …
CORRECTION: Ahh, the pitfalls of technology. In the post below, I wrote about an ad that kept running Sunday morning on CNN, which I watched in the background as I scribbled away at my office. Several times, I heard an ad for Anderson Cooper’s show that included a woman’s voice talking about being a “lifelong Democrat” and watching …
In the course of reporting a story for this week’s TIME magazine, which is about the White House’s determination to take the fight to its critics, I came across a lot of sentiments like this quote about Fox News that I noted a couple days back. “They are the paid political programming for a party, and occasionally a couple of news …
On a recent visit to New York, White House adviser David Axelrod met over coffee with Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News network, which President Obama has described as a “television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.”
According to accounts from both the White House and Fox News, the meeting was …
During his September address to Congress, Barack Obama put his less-than-responsible critics on notice. “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out,” he said. After the wee-weed days of August, this was Obama’s way of saying he and the rest of the White House communications office was sick of playing “Reality Check” …