Fox News is the most trusted source for news in the country.
As the article points out, this is more due to uniformity of Republican thought than anything else.
"...conservatives and Republicans are more intense and united in their opinions of TV news than moderates and liberals. They trust Fox, and mistrust everyone else, more uniformly than the other groups mistrust Fox and trust everyone else. Likewise, in reverse, for news organizations other than Fox, which conservatives mistrust intensely and across the board." [emphaisis added]
A look at the data shows that both liberals and moderates distrust Fox on balance and trust other mainstream sources. However, conservatives only trust Fox, by a really large margin, and distrust every other network, by really large margins.
What we see is what anyone with at least the brain of a third-grader has seen for a long time: conservatives are becoming more and more partisan, more extreme, and more uniform in their views. Like the Republican members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, they are more and more willing to march in lockstep, always adopting the approved party line.
It's scary.
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