Whole Lotta Stupid Goin' On
by tristero
Here's the bad news: An incredible 41% of the people polled trust Fox News. What this means is that, on average, of the next 100 drivers hurtling towards you on the interstate, forty-one of the those drivers are so unhinged from reality that they trust Fox News. Feel safe? I don't.
Here's some weird news. That 41% trust level? It's a record low for Fox News. In 2010, nearly 50% trusted Fox. But I don't take the drop as good news. It's a terribly sad commentary on the state of the mainstream discourse that today well over 1/3 of this people polled trusts Fox.
Some good news: PBS - which, by the way, is not by any sane metric a "liberal network," - is trusted by a majority of Americans. Way to go, Big Bird!