Why So Many Americans Trust The Weather Channel
FiveThirtyEight Politics
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The Use of Polling in Elections
Poll asked Americans to rank 56 different news outlets from very trustworthy to very untrustworthy. Results showed that Americans most trustworthy outlet by a long shot is the weather channel, then comes PBS, then the BBC. The least trustworthy was info wars followed by the Daily Caller, then Breitbart News. Cross tabs also revealed how Democrats and Republicans viewed the outlets; overall Democrats trusted news media more than Republicans.
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