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I completely agree. This poll is non-sensical since "the media" is an indirect reference. The question is more about what the indirect reference points to rather than about the state of our information apparatus itself.

A much better poll would be about trust in explicit news sources, which would lead to the obvious conclusion that everyone trusts the sources of news they subscribe to, those sources create a particular reality, and that sources that paint pictures of different realities aren't trust-able.

>I have to wonder though, how many of those Republicans count Fox News as "the media"?

Rs don't trust Fox either. They called AZ for Biden early. Neil Cavuto clowned himself over Trump taking HCQ. Tucker Carlson helped bury the Hunter Biden laptop story. Nobody trusts Fox on either side.

Yes, and vice versa

We don't trust it that much. We see OK you through in a couple solid commentators, like the guy in the plaid, but that's it, and that's all the trust they get. They're owned by Rupert Murdoch after all, and they do some incredibly Democrat bullshit things all the time.