Pretty impressive how all of the networks listed are elite controlled corporate-neoliberal brained. Pretty grim assessment of how democrats consume the news as well.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Most of these aren't even news. They're entertainment companies that happen to include reporting-like segments and opinion pieces, whether they're accurate or not. And they're for-profit; their main customers are advertisers, not viewers/readers.
A non-profit that simply reports without spin would be "real" news - actually trustworthy information from a source that isn't trying to brainwash you or milk you for ad revenue. There are very, very few organizations that fit this criteria. The biggest is AP (Associated Press). The entertainment companies license AP content (and content from for-profit competitors like Reuters) but filter and distort it however they wish.
And of course, most of the right-wing voters probably don't know and/or care to understand that FOX was founded as a propaganda outlet in the first place.
I was under the impression that FOX has now bought many small local news stations in no-where-ville, which did (and, I assume, continue to do) perfectly competent local reporting. Am I crazy?
They just also run nonsense on the side; the 'mandatory' coverage. Was there a late-show about this a few years back?
Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party are much more likely than Republicans and GOP-leaning independents to both use and trust a number of major news sources. These include the major TV networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), the cable news networks CNN and MSNBC, major public broadcasters PBS and NPR, and the legacy newspaper with the largest number of digital subscribers, The New York Times.
Republicans, meanwhile, are much more likely to distrust than trust all of these sources. A smaller number of the sources we asked about are more heavily used and trusted by Republicans than Democrats, including Fox News, The Joe Rogan Experience, Newsmax, The Daily Wire, the Tucker Carlson Network and Breitbart.
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Each source’s placement on this chart is based on the average measure of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from that source – taking into consideration both the party identification (Republican or Democrat, including leaners) and ideology (conservative, moderate or liberal) of respondents. Refer to the methodology for details.
That's more interesting to me. It makes the distribution feel lopsided, not like a bell curve.
And what do we do with this information? Laughs nervously. Waaaay too late for that.
doesnt even list aljezeera at all.
I didn’t notice that at first. Good catch. I’d trust them over hateful trash like Breitbart any day.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I also expect that some younger Republicans are getting news from random, less popular right-wing podcasts or whatever. The Republicans I know basically either do that or pretty much exclusively use Fox News and occasionally Newsmax.
No shit.
..duh..