I think one of the scariest parts here is how only one news source cracked 50% for Republicans. That indicates a rejection of the concept of news
Could we do some research into the amount of lies on each source?
The most striking thing in this graphic is that Republicans don’t trust anything except Fox and Joe Rogan. Shows the lack of critical thinking imho.
Even Rogan didn’t hit a third. That’s nute
I will hear out Associated and BBC but if it’s in the US? Nah, probably owned by some billionaire parasite shitbag.
Trust is a strong word for almost all of these. A lot of them have betrayed my trust before so I don’t trust them anymore. Like who would trust the New York Times? Honestly? They do some good reporting. But I think you’d have to be naive to just trust whatever they say these days, or ever really.
Exactly. I may use some of these as sources if several all agree, but trust? Nah.
Yeah they lost me when in 2004 they buried a story about all the WMD experts leaving Iraq on the back pages of section A while vocally supporting the war on the front page.
If I trust none of them what does that make me?
Uninformed
The trust in Fox News is SO disheartening. It’s almost completely sensationalist propaganda.
I’m surprised NPR has low trust rates from both parties. I can feel a liberal bias, their long-form stories are excellent, but they do try to present both sides which probably makes some liberals unhappy.
I took the results a bit differently.
First, I ignored the dislike slices. Who’s watching sources they distrust? Nobody, so that’s personal bias, IMO.
Now, look at the Trust slices. Other than FoxNews, no news source really breaks 25% for the Repubs. They just don’t seem to follow any source. If they did, they’d trust someone. So half watch FoxNews, and only a quarter watch anything else.
For the lefties, half the sources have 30-60% trust. That is a lot more sources getting regular eyes and ears on them. Something like NPR getting less high reviews is likely just less listeners as it’s a bit “drier” news and a bit “both sidesey” due to it being public media. The dislike for it is only 3%, tied for the lowest dislike. Counterpoint is Newsmax for the left. Really low like and dislike because why would a liberal ever watch that?
Fox News admitted under oath in a court of law that they intentionally mislead their audiences with bullshit in order to push an agenda.
After that happened, Fox News should’ve been either forced to shut down or their audiences should’ve walked away in shame.
Instead, Fox News audience: WE WANT MORE OF THAT!
I think they should have just been told they cannot use the term news. They could use the term Knews if they like. Like Krab for News
If the just went with Fox Entertainment, that’s fine as well. But if the information you are putting out there you are saying your viewers know isn’t necessarily factual, it shouldn’t fall under news. The Onion Im sure would be fine with BREAKING KNEWS
I mean the answer is really obvious. Fox and right-wing news outlets in general are designed to elicit strong emotional responses with the stories that they run and how they run them. It is, without exaggeration, literally - in the classical sense of the term “literally” (fuck I hate that I have to specify that now) - the daily hour(s) of hate. Strong emotions elicit the release of dopamine. This is why it “feels good” to many people.
but they do try to present both sides which probably makes some liberals unhappy.
I’ll tell you why they lost me. In the run-up to the Iraq War II, the GeeDubz administration was obviously pushing bullshit. Like - everyone who wasn’t already subsumed into the Fox News talk radio hivemind knew - with very very little-to-no doubt, they were lying about WMDs. Outright lying - not “wrong” - outright lying.
They had a secret meeting to plan this war before Sept 11, and now they were hell bent to do it. But, because this was pre-trump, they needed to at least snow everybody under enough to make it look “legitimate”.
NPR ran every bullshit lie straight up as if it were true - and, listen, everybody knew; everybody from the CIA down to Joe from Joe’s Bar and Grill knew - it was absolute garbage BS. But there they were promoting the lies just like Fox News, only with a little twist - a little “critics say” coda at the end, a totally useless nod.
GeeDubz wasn’t doing press conferences then. Like at all. For a year, I think. Anyway, he’s finally going to do one. Several major networks are going to be allowed one question each. NPR is one of them. The day arrives, we all listen in to see what flimsy crooked tacked-on part of their insane plan they’ll work to expose. The question comes.
It was the most mealy, softball, worthless question imaginable. NPR had sent Juan Williams to ask it. I think he’s still lying for Fox News where he went several years later.
That, and NPR outright refusing to call “enhanced interrogation” what it was; that’s when I told them to GTFO. Never went back.
Listen, they’re as liberal as a chain store. Their whole purpose is to deflect progressive narratives. And that’s all they do.
all the magats here are glued to fox ‘news’. many even pay the $100+ a month for cable or satellite and literally never change the channel from it.
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Joe Rogan Experience being called a news source 😠
Do they even have news? I thought it was like the Howard Stern show or something
It IS.
So Republicans distrust media overall much more than Democrats.
If it wasn’t for the Fox News and Joe Rogan trust, i would say Republicans seem more media literate than Democrats. Although in these case the Republicans also distrust them relatively more than the Democrats do for some of “their” media. In particular the NYT and CNN deserve much more distrust imo. It is clear that they are agenda driven, usually against the interests of the middle class.
I think it’s less about having an agenda or not, and more about the factuality of reporting. If I read “so-and-so is quoted as saying…” then can I trust that what is being represented is the same as what the speaker intended?
Agenda-free reporting would be nice in theory, but I don’t think it’s very realistic. We can demand certain standards of factuality though, and then just do the legwork to identify and take biases into account.
I mean, they are nowhere near Rogan or Fox News in terms of agenda, but i think Rogan is a great example. Most of his stuff is just podcasts. So instead of “quoting” the guests, he just lets them speak directly. But the choice of guests, the choice of question and so on, make a huge difference in the picture conveyed to the consumer.
One could argue that the relatively subtle way of media like the NYT is more insidious as it is harder to spot, but it seems that the “blunt” approach of Fox News isn’t less effective, so i couldn’t judge which is better or worse.
I agree with you that it isn’t very realistic to find reporting free of any Agenda, even if the reporters do their best to be as neutral as possible.
In particular the NYT and CNN deserve much more distrust imo. It is clear that they are agenda driven, usually against the interests of the middle class.
I’m a paying subscriber of the New York Times.
I find your criticism deeply unfair. Yes, the NYT sometimes gets thing wrong. No news organization is perfect. But, overall, it’s a good newspaper. And they aren’t anti-middle class. In fact, I would argue the opposite. It’s one of the only big media organization in the US that regularly publishes pro-union opinion articles. When was the last time you saw USA today or CNN do that?
Why Unions Are Good for America
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/opinion/uaw-strike-unions.html
Inside Starbucks’ Dirty War Against Organized Labor
The Cost of a Decline in Unions
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-cost-of-a-decline-in-unions.html
Workers Should Not Have to Risk Their Lives in Heat Waves
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/opinion/heat-wave-workers-climate.html?searchResultPosition=44
Pay Caitlin Clark What She’s Worth
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/caitlin-clark-wnba-salary.html?searchResultPosition=48
Republicans Assumed a Nebraska Senate Seat Was Safe. Then This Candidate Came Along.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opinion/nebraska-senate-dan-osborn.html?searchResultPosition=30
The real pro-oligarchy paper is the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ never published a single opinion article saying good things about labor unions.
WSJ editors are explicitly told that if they do that, they will be fired. This is a direct order from the owner, Rupert Murdoch.
In fact, the WSJ has published countless opinion pieces praising right-to work laws, attacking labor unions, and calling for taxes on the rich to be massively slashed:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/workers-choice-is-the-way-forward-unions-employees-9847e341
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-right-to-work-rout-1533767899
Joe Biden named Lina Khan, an anti-monopoly activist, to head the FTC.
If you read the NYT, you will find several opinion articles praising Lina Khan for taking on huge corporations:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/opinion/lina-khan-ftc-venture-capital-silicon-valley.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/lina-khan-antitrust-harris.html
If you read Murdoch’s WSJ, every single opinion article ever published attacks her and defends big corporations:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lina-khan-ftc-capri-tapestry-merger-antitrust-5a3627c1
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ftc-goes-evidence-free-lina-khan-pbm-healthcare-14076225
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lina-khan-federal-trade-commission-amazon-case-e2cce1c5
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-unfond-farewell-to-lina-khan-fabbf799
The NYT has also published many pieces demonizing Palestinians and downplaying Israeli war crimes. It even helped Israeli intelligence assets spread allegations about sexual violence on October 7 that couldn’t be verified by other Journalists, human rights groups or the UN, but helped strongly in distracting from well documented and evidenced sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians they have taken hostage.
The NYTs defends the piece to this day, despite acknowledging:
“In February 2024, Schwartz was found to have liked incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to “turn the strip into a slaughterhouse”, “violate any norm, on the way to victory”, and that read “Those in front of us are human animals who do not hesitate to violate minimal rules.”[2][23][24] The Times launched an investigation.[23] The Times was reviewing Schwartz’s social media posts, and made a preliminary statement that such activity breaches company policy.[23][5] Schwartz subsequently locked and deleted her social media posts.”
The NYT also simped for the Iraq invasion and bullied out their former Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges, because he dared to criticize that illegal war of aggression.
As for the role of the NYT in maintaining support for the Vietnam war and downplaying US involvement with far right extremist and fascist terror organizations and dictators in Central and South America, i recommend you to read “Manufacturing consent”, which provides detailed evidence of how the NYT is part of the corporate media that ensures consent for US crimes against humanity and international law all around the world.
Does moving the goalpost mean that you agree that the nyt is pro middle class now?
What you are doing is called moving the goal post. But I’ll answer.
1. Hamas is not “The Palestinians”. Saying Hamas committed bad things doesn’t mean “demonizing palestinians”.
2. The french media confirmed there were acts of sexual abuse on October 7. This is a very strange hill to die on.
3. The NYT has published stunning investigations into Israeli crimes:
An Israeli Soldier Killed a Medic in Gaza. We Investigated the Fatal Shot.
Autopsies of Gaza Medics Killed by Israeli Troops Show Some Were Shot in the Head
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/middleeast/gaza-medics-killed-israel.html
4. She wasn’t a NYT journalist. She was a freelancer. She helped make the movie “Waltz with Bashir” and was described as a leftist. Her Facebook profile picture declared in Arabic that “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies’”. The like was in question was posted on October 7. Upon learning this, on March 2024, the NYT ended her employment.
5. You are quoting The Intercept. That small newspaper also has reporters involved in ethical scandals. You want me to list them all?
6. The New York Times has published opinion pieces by several Palestinians and Israelis.
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opinion/palestine-war-empathy.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/opinion/israel-war-hamas-sderot.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/opinion/israel-gaza-war-history.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/opinion/israel-democracy-netanyahu-war.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opinion/israel-netanyahu-palestinians.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/gaza-war-holocaust-shoah.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/palestine-leadership-war-israel.html
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t like New York Times very much.
From december 2022:
Israel’s Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the New York Times on Sunday after the paper’s editorial board warned his administration would undermine democracy and cater to extremists.
i was providing evidence why the NYT is agenda driven. As for how they hide it, i already recommended you to read “Manufacturing Consent” where this is analyzed in detail.
The french media confirmed there were acts of sexual abuse on October 7. This is a strange hill to die on.
Now you are moving goal posts and ignoring the fundamental problem. Also you selectively focus on the intercept, when multiple media outlets have investigated the NYT piece and found severe problems.
There is a substantial difference between factual reporting on sexual violence and letting a “former” intelligence officer who calls for genocide to completely fabricate cases and become unhinged in her claims. This also amounted to psychological violence against victims and family members who had to come out and deny the fabrications made by the New York Times. Imagine your family member is being murdered and a ruthless “former” intelligence officer is spreading inventions to make it more gruesome than it was and people being bullied to lie about it in order to support the governments propaganda efforts.
On January 3, Mondoweiss published an article by an “anonymous group of Palestinian journalists in Israel” containing a critical review of statements in “Screams Without Words” about Gal Abdush. As described by Mondoweiss, some of Abdush’s relatives, including her sisters and brother-in-law, stated that she hadn’t been raped.[11][2] Her brother-in-law, Nissim Abdush, stated that no official party had informed them of sexual assault, saying that “the media invented it”.[11] Her sisters Tali Barakha and Miral Altar pointed out perceived incoherencies in the timing of events, with Altar writing that “[i]t doesn’t make any sense that in four minutes, they raped her, slaughtered her, and burned her”.[11] The Mondoweiss article also pointed to a Ynet interview of Gal’s mother, Eti Bracha, where she stated that she had only learned about the rape from “the New York Times reporter”.[11][10] However, Bracha, like Gal Abdush’s brother and mother-in-law, said they believed Abdush was raped.[10] Bracha stated that “there are witnesses who saw the sexual assault of my daughter”.[10] In an article published in CounterPunch in early February, media scholar and Fordham University professor Robin Andersen criticized the strength of the investigation, noting major discrepancies between families’ testimonies and the article’s text.[22]
Eden Wessely, who filmed Gal Abdush’s body, told Ynet in January 2024 that New York Times co-authors Schwartz and Sella had “called me again and again and explained how important [her footage and testimony were] to Israeli hasbara.”[14][8]: ¶64 Wessely noted that Schwartz and Sella wanted “to know every detail”.[14] She said she understood that “there were disagreements within the [Abdush] family about the publication that she had been raped”, but stated her belief that Gal’s “voice should be heard, because her whole appearance screamed: ‘Look at me, hear me, I was raped, I was murdered.’”
Again, i feel like the gravity of it cannot be understated. This piece was clearly a propaganda piece to help Israel maintain its image as the ICJ demanded measures to be taken by Israel to prevent committing genocide against Palestinians. Even as the evidence came in, the NYT doubled down, despite full well knowing who and what it does propaganda for with this piece.
The fact that the NYT occasionally lets Palestinian voices be heard only serves as a veil to create the idea of being unbiased. Again this is something that is well analyzed in “Manufacturing consent” and it isn’t exclusive to the NYT. Most corporate media acts in similar fashion.
The United Nations special representative Pramila Patten released her full report on sexual assaults on October 7.
She concluded that sexual violence did indeed take place. The NYT didn’t publish anything false.
The fact Hamas committed bad thing doesn’t mean the NYT vilified Palestinians.
The NYT told the story of a Palestinian grandmother who refuses to leave her home in Gaza during bombardments because she already lost her home once, in 1948:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-diaspora-families.html
The NYT wrote stories about a Palestinian child orphaned by the air strike that killed dozens of her family members :
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-children-israel.html
There’s no story that is more fiercely contested than Israel-Palestine drama , more mired in competing zero-sum narratives. It is nearly impossible to produce fair, accurate coverage without making all sides angry.
How the fuck does Fox news have 19% trust rate among the Dems?
Reuters ignored again
Yeah, I wanted to see how it stacked up compared to others. Guess not.
The New York Post being a single point of agreement is great.
Dems hate it cause they know it’s a shitty right wing tabloid. Reps hate it because they don’t read / don’t know what it is, but it’s from New York so it must be liberal.
I’m Surprised WaPo didn’t score better with Rebuplicans. I only see it’s opinion pieces but it’s very right leaning imo
Democrats: There definitely are some news sources you could at least compare to each other if not trust.
Republicans: Fox news and Joe Rogan all the way folks. Nothing else to see here.
Edit: There is an App called Ground News. It tries to outline which topics get reported by which outlets and where the left and right have their blind spots.
Fox has a 2.67 factor of trust/distrust among Republicans. Rogan has a 3.44 factor for Republicans.
Meanwhile CNN has 4.14 trust/distrust among Democrats and the NYT has a factor of 7 among Democrats. MSNB still comes above a factor of 4 and WAPO is about the same factor like Rogan.So it is not as much “all the way here” for Republicans. They are relatively more distrusting of all media, including “their” media.
The lower trust in their own media might have something to do with how blatantly dishonest those sources are. But it also likely means that their viewers have lowered any standards they might have ever had. They aren’t going to be shocked if they see the lies exposed, they can just shrug and say that everyone lies but the other side lies more.
Obvious falsehoods are dismissed as hyperbole, close enough to the truth that it doesn’t matter if it’s not entirely accurate. Omissions are just distractions cooked up by the other side to keep us from talking about the real issues. There’s no expectation that reporting should be factual and follow journalistic standards, the only measure of the quality of the news source is how much they agree with it. They’ve been inoculated against reality.
Wow! Looks like one could say that Dems generally trust “mainstream” media and Reps generally don’t.
Doesn’t Fox News being “The Number One Cable News Network” make it mainstream? I know my mother shutdown when I asked her.
