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News Segment
August 23, 2025 1157 replies Error Margin: + – 3%
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Charlie Rose interviews Steve Bannon at Breitbart, Wash DC, Sept 6, 2017. Getty // Sam Hornblower
Q1. Today's poll comes via user submission.

If your ability to make a living depended on knowing the true facts as they pertain to major news and current events, which THREE of these sources would you rely on most?

Please choose up to THREE, and consider only the news (not opinion) divisions of these properties when selecting your answers.
(Image: Dustin Hoffman, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Robert Redford at All The President's Men premier, Wash DC, 1976)
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+

Associated Press

40%
40%
41%
12%
48%
64%
46%
49%
35%
35%

BBC

35%
27%
42%
10%
38%
56%
28%
39%
36%
33%

Breitbart

7%
8%
7%
15%
6%
0%
0%
4%
10%
9%

CNN

9%
8%
9%
3%
11%
13%
15%
4%
7%
13%

Facebook

2%
1%
2%
3%
2%
0%
0%
0%
4%
1%

Fox News

26%
33%
21%
55%
14%
3%
35%
19%
27%
28%

Newsmax

19%
15%
23%
40%
12%
3%
8%
7%
33%
21%

New York Times

9%
8%
10%
0%
10%
18%
7%
6%
9%
15%

NPR

35%
24%
45%
0%
35%
67%
28%
39%
35%
36%

PBS

25%
17%
31%
0%
28%
46%
8%
28%
24%
32%

USA Today

4%
7%
2%
7%
5%
2%
9%
4%
3%
3%

Wall Street Journal

14%
19%
9%
23%
14%
5%
10%
17%
12%
15%

Washington Post

4%
2%
5%
2%
4%
6%
0%
0%
6%
8%

X (Twitter)

10%
12%
8%
21%
10%
0%
1%
16%
11%
7%

Don't trust any of these

12%
17%
7%
20%
14%
5%
25%
15%
7%
7%

Don't care

0%
0%
0%
0%
2%
0%
1%
0%
0%
Q2. Among these less traditional or lesser consumed sources of information, which do you trust, generally speaking? (check all that apply, skip any you are not familiar with)
(Image: Donald Trump on Joe Rogan's podcast, Oct 25, 2024 via Rogan Experience)
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+

Joe Rogan Experience - trust

28%
39%
20%
61%
19%
2%
35%
22%
33%
25%

Don't trust

57%
47%
66%
23%
65%
88%
64%
62%
55%
53%

Reddit - trust

14%
14%
13%
4%
18%
21%
18%
22%
9%
8%

Don't trust

64%
64%
64%
69%
60%
62%
82%
55%
68%
57%

Tucker Carlson Show - trust

24%
28%
21%
51%
16%
2%
27%
20%
27%
22%

Don't trust

62%
56%
66%
28%
68%
90%
63%
67%
59%
59%

Pod Save America - trust

19%
12%
25%
3%
8%
36%
0%
28%
20%
17%

Don't trust

46%
53%
39%
51%
53%
39%
79%
38%
40%
41%

The Daily Show - trust

38%
24%
49%
1%
43%
69%
8%
48%
40%
42%

Don't trust

43%
56%
32%
71%
37%
20%
74%
41%
42%
28%

Peer-reviewed journals (eg Nature, The Lancet)

49%
44%
52%
20%
60%
73%
51%
59%
46%
40%

Don't trust

26%
33%
21%
46%
18%
10%
39%
26%
24%
21%

160+ yr-old magazines Harper's, The Atlantic

35%
24%
44%
3%
36%
64%
16%
41%
34%
41%

Don't trust

37%
49%
27%
63%
34%
15%
56%
38%
36%
25%

Not familiar with any enough to say

9%
8%
10%
13%
10%
6%
8%
10%
9%
10%

Don't care

1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
1%
2%
Q3. Generally speaking, do you trust the same news sources you did ten years ago, and do you trust the same sources your parents did when they were your age?
(Image: Walter Cronkite airs his "Report from Vietnam" on the Tet Offensive, Feb 27, 1968 via CBS News)
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Group A

Trust same sources I did ten years ago

35%
31%
39%
26%
28%
45%
16%
40%
37%
38%

Do not

51%
56%
47%
64%
54%
40%
64%
42%
54%
50%

Not sure

9%
7%
9%
4%
13%
11%
13%
13%
5%
5%

Moot: ones I trusted before no longer exist

5%
6%
4%
6%
4%
4%
7%
5%
3%
6%
Group B

Trust same sources my parents did

11%
12%
10%
8%
8%
15%
22%
9%
8%
10%

Do not

59%
64%
55%
74%
65%
45%
52%
49%
68%
62%

Not sure

20%
16%
23%
10%
15%
30%
24%
32%
13%
13%

Moot: ones parents trusted no longer exist

9%
7%
11%
9%
11%
9%
1%
9%
9%
14%

Don't care

1%
0%
2%
0%
0%
2%
0%
2%
1%

Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News anchor from 1962-1981, was frequently referred to as "the most trusted man in America."

The basis for the moniker was a 1972 poll conducted by CBS on the trustworthiness of political figures including Nixon, Agnew, Humphrey, McGovern, and incongruously Cronkite as the only non-politician. Cronkite edged out a generic "US Senator" option for the top spot and CBS used that result to promote Cronkite's standing as "the most trusted man in America" and eventually it took on legitimacy.

In 1970s polls conducted by Phillips-Sindlinger on the trustworthiness of newscasters, Cronkite was at times first, other times as low as fourth, and among political moderates he was rarely first, with John Chancellor usually the leader.

Jan 2025

Generally speaking, do you think the medical science "establishment" has served us well over the years?

37% Yes, very (36% among independents)

32% Somewhat (32%)

19% Not really (21%)

12% Not at all (11%)

Jan 2024

41% find their major daily metropolitan newspaper to be of value, 37% do not

Aug 2022

Top four from amongst the same choices (save for in 2022 PBS not an option):

37% AP

35% BBC

28% NPR

24% Fox News

Do you think US voters consume more media that is biased toward liberal or conservative views?

50% liberal, 33% conservative

Nov 2021

20% Like Joe Rogan, 31% don't like, 27% neither, 21% unaware of who Rogan is

Feb 2015

13% said it was good news Jon Stewart was stepping down from The Daily Show, 45% bad news, 28% didn't care

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