Jeanne at Body and Soul has a question about a Pew Research Center poll of how Democrats and Republicans rate the reliability of various news sources:

What's more, Republican trust in the media is declining rapidly -- and this is where I really get confused. Over the past four years, Democratic trust in most media sources has dropped a few percentage points. CNN, for instance, went from being trusted by 48% of Democrats in 2000 down to 45% this year. Meanwhile, Republicans who trust CNN dropped seven points, from 33% to 26%. And that's not an unusual drop. The non-cable networks each dropped between eight and thirteen points.

I'm trying to be fair, but I find it hard to imagine how any rational person, no matter how conservative, could argue that the press has become more liberal in the last four years. Even if I try to factor in recent coverage of Bush, and especially of the war, which is a bit more realistic, and therefore inevitably more negative than it was a couple of years ago, I can't help but notice that press credibility among Republicans was already declining rapidly in 2002, when it's pretty hard to imagine how the press could have been more subservient.

You have to remember: Rush Limbaugh, who is Big Media if anyone is, can excoriate "the big media" and get nothing but sage nods of agreement from his audience.

The sort of person who Jeanne feels would drive up Fox' trustability score has a different idea of what "the news" is. Rush, Hannity and Colmes, O'Reilly, etc. aren't "the news", aren't Big Media. War coverage isn't "the news" either. "The news" comes on around five-ish and ends just in time for Jeopardy.

I think if the survey asked opinions of the personalities of the respective networks, it would have turned out closer to Jeanne's expectations.