OPINION:
Fox News — sorry CNN — has come in second, behind the BBC, in terms of winning the trust of American television news watchers, according to a new analysis.
You think this has anything to do with all the “fake news” outing that’s been going on lately, most noticeably by President Donald Trump? No doubt. Americans aren’t stupid — or without choices.
After all, even the most committed of Trump bashers must get sick of the nonstop Russia collusion stories going nowhere in mainstream media. The rhetoric’s, at the least, boring — at the worst, outright deceptive.
And the numbers are in: Americans see deception at play with the mainstream media.
As The Hill reported, Brand Keys queried 4,012 viewers about the news outlets they watch more than three times each week as a means of gauging how much trust each station generated. And the findings?
The BBC, in all its English accenting glory, won 90 percent of viewers’ trust. Fox News, meanwhile, came in second, with an 87 percent trustworthy rating. PBS came in third, at 86 percent.
MSNBC? CNN? CBS? Other places that lean left — that lean toward Trump-bashing? You have to go farther down the list for those ratings.
Eighty-one percent of survey respondents gave Bloomberg the high marks for trustworthiness; 80 percent, to MSNBC; 72 percent to CBS; 70 percent to NBC; 69 percent to ABC.
The days of network news — of CBS-ABC-NBC domination — ended some time ago. But now add CNN to that list.
“CNN and Sinclair are the final two TV news outlets included in the survey, with CNN tying ABC at 69 percent on the trust scale and Sinclair last at 58 percent,” The Hill reported.
Ouch. Sad days for the left. Their echo chambers, it seems, are disappearing and more, and more Americans are beginning to learn they have options to avoid all the “fake news.”
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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