Some Interesting Polls About Public Opinion on Fox News

There are many forums and bodies, which frequently conduct public polls in order to gauge and estimate the public perception of various issues or their opinion about things. In this regard, Pew Research Center is one of the foremost institutions when it comes to activity and the scale of their surveys. These surveys are conducted in many states and they are a pretty accurate representation of what the people think about Fox News Live.

Conservative vs Liberal

According to the poll results, there is a public opinion the Fox News is slanted towards the conservative side of the political spectrum. Actually, the demographic indicated a ratio pf 47 percent regarding Fox News live as Conservative versus 14 percent who claimed that it was liberal. The remaining 24 percent were explicitly undecided on the matter, or they believed that the broadcasting service is neutral.

Other Networks

The ratios are quite different for other networks. About 36 to 37 percent of the general population believes that CNN has a tendency to be mostly liberal in its coverage and in its analysis of news. This is opposed to only 11 percent who claim the channel to be conservative. The polls yielded about the same results regarding MSNBC, NBC and very similar result for ABC and some other TV channels. However, there was another interesting discovery which was made with other polls. A majority of Fox News Viewers are of the opinion that other TV networks are overly and excessively liberal in their opinions. This indicates a very solid role of political orientation in people’s taste in TV channels.

This divide furthers when it comes to other polls, especially a poll regarding whether it is good or bad to have opinionated hosts running tv networks. Interestingly, a prominent majority of Fox viewers and fans said that it is a good thing that TV hosts deliver news in combination with their opinion or an analysis of the news. However, with the viewers of other news networks, the opinion was more equally matched between the two options.

Opinions on Obama Coverage

Now that term of Obama’s administration is over, it is interesting to see the opinions that people hold about the way the media conducted itself during that very important era of American history. During the years of Obama government, there was a steady decline of people believing that the press had been fair in their coverage of the Obama administration. By 2009, 31 percent claimed that the coverage of Obama was not sufficient or that it was not critical enough. At the same time, 26 percent claimed that the coverage was indeed too critical. Of this percentage, a majority of Republicans believed that the press was not being critical enough, whereas the majority of democrats believed that the press was too critical.