munnki
28 Jan 2010, 09:46 AM
This (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/27/fox-news-most-popular) is the kind of thing which could keep me up at night.
The onward march of Fox News, the relentlessly rightwing channel that has revolutionised American television news by making it overtly partisan, has been boosted by an opinion poll that suggests it is the most trusted news operation in the country.
Almost half of all Americans surveyed in the poll of 1,151 registered voters said they trusted Fox News. That is a notably larger vote of confidence than the 39% who said they trusted Fox's great rival CNN, and vastly more than the credibility ratings of the traditional news networks ABC News (31%), CBS News (32%) and NBC News (35%).
The poll findings are vindication of the commercial strategy of Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is the brainchild of his controversial henchman Roger Ailes. Fox News threw out the old model of television news – pitched towards a mass audience across the political spectrum and aspiring to standards of fairness in reporting – and replaced it with an aggressive drive for a niche audience of rightwing voters.
It may as well read - poll finds that 50% of Americans still believe in Santa Claus. If Fox news starts to be read as fact by a base as large as that we are in some seriously deep shit. I would love to spend a year in American schools to see how media is taught to young people. I'm not all that cynical about this - I just hope that critical thinking and skepticism are being emphasised when students are being taught about the media. That or people who think like Glenn Beck will soon be in a majority in congress and the senate.
Fuck me!
The onward march of Fox News, the relentlessly rightwing channel that has revolutionised American television news by making it overtly partisan, has been boosted by an opinion poll that suggests it is the most trusted news operation in the country.
Almost half of all Americans surveyed in the poll of 1,151 registered voters said they trusted Fox News. That is a notably larger vote of confidence than the 39% who said they trusted Fox's great rival CNN, and vastly more than the credibility ratings of the traditional news networks ABC News (31%), CBS News (32%) and NBC News (35%).
The poll findings are vindication of the commercial strategy of Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is the brainchild of his controversial henchman Roger Ailes. Fox News threw out the old model of television news – pitched towards a mass audience across the political spectrum and aspiring to standards of fairness in reporting – and replaced it with an aggressive drive for a niche audience of rightwing voters.
It may as well read - poll finds that 50% of Americans still believe in Santa Claus. If Fox news starts to be read as fact by a base as large as that we are in some seriously deep shit. I would love to spend a year in American schools to see how media is taught to young people. I'm not all that cynical about this - I just hope that critical thinking and skepticism are being emphasised when students are being taught about the media. That or people who think like Glenn Beck will soon be in a majority in congress and the senate.
Fuck me!