Fox Is Considered Most Uncivil Network: Study [View all]

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Source: Huffington Post

Fox Is Considered Most Uncivil Network: Study

Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC Research polled 1,000 people in April for their annual "Civility In America" study. Thirty-five percent of participants said that Fox News is "uncivil," while 53% described it as "civil."

CNN and MSNBC fared slightly better. Thirty-one percent considered MSNBC "uncivil" and 49% "civil." Thirty-one percent of respondents thought CNN was "uncivil," and 53% "civil." PBS was considered most civil of the networks.

The results did not bode well for news outlets overall. "A considerable 62% called out the media as uncivil in this year’s survey," the study reported. "While this is considerably lower than last year’s incivility rating of 74%, it ranks among the top five most uncivil aspects of American life."

A whopping majority of people (82%) also believe that the media is more interested in controversy than facts, and 55% of respondents said that they were tuning out of "news coverage and reporting" due to incivility.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/fox-uncivil-network-study_n_1593618.html?utm_hp_ref=media

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Executive Summary Here:
http://www.webershandwick.com/civility/docs/2012_Civility_ExecutiveSummary.pdf