“Pew Research has a new study out today on, among other things, which news outlets are the most and least trusted by Americans. Most of the results are what you’d expect – conservatives trust Fox News, liberals trust MSNBC, etc. But some results were telling.
Conservatives trust Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, liberals do not. Liberals trust Ed Schultz and Al Jazeera America, conservatives do not. But there were some surprises in those numbers as well.
For example, people who are “consistently conservative” and those “mostly conservative” had majorities trusting Beck and Sean Hannity, but it was a wash when it comes to Limbaugh. Schultz and Al Jazeera won over the trust of those “consistently liberal,” but saw a wash themselves among “mostly liberal” viewers.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more from POLITICO here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/10/study-conservatives-distrust-media-more-than-liberals-197394.html