How is it not? If my options are crap, crappy, super crap and super-extra-duper crap... It seems helpful to know which one is the least crappy.
As an aside, are you willing to share which news station you don't put in the crap bucket?
It's also helpful to know that they are all crappy, which this didn't show.
This is a relative study. If instead they set up some reasonable objective criteria and ranked each news sources according to it, that would be useful. I may see that CNN scores only 20%, and Fox News scores only 10%. Yes, CNN would be better, but it would also tell me not to waste time on either.
> As an aside, are you willing to share which news station you don't put in the crap bucket?
I was a news junkie a decade ago, and weaned myself off of it. Things have likely changed since those years so it would be hard to suggest some now - I've heard sources like The Guardian have gone downhill, for example.
In general, print sources are way better. Even a mediocre print source tends to be better than almost all video/TV news. Radio is somewhere in between.
McClatchy DC[1] was one resource I would recommend in those days. It's a "general purpose" news organization and one of the few mainstream publications that often covered items neglected by the rest. Most hadn't heard of it, but the parent organization owns several well known print newspapers.
I see they filed for bankruptcy in 2020. I don't know if they've been able to maintain the quality.
As much as I dislike the NY Times, it's still way ahead of CNN/Fox/MSNBC.
