A new poll shows that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud’s seven-percent investment in News Corp. is paying off:

Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.

We congratulate Fox Jazeera on its accomplishment.

Fox leads for trust [PPP]

Brit Hume explains Sunday morning how Tiger’s problem isn’t his driver, but his deity:

“The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith,” said Hume. “He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of redemption and forgiveness offered by the Christian faith. My message to Tiger is, ‘Tiger turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”

A noble sentiment, to be sure. Look how well Christian forgiveness worked for Bill Clinton.

Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgiven [Raw Story]

We’re not sure whether NPR’s Mara Liasson has started her Clockwork Orange marathon yet, but the good folks at Fox News are already threading the projector for her.

Let’s start with this wonderful poll graphic that ran last Friday on Fox & Friends, showing that Americans are, um, 120 percent against global-warming lies. That’s the kind of can-do spirit that built this great nation, and will soon send it over a cliff.

How did Fox’s cup runneth over? Media Matters explains:

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It’s been a long time since we’ve listened to NPR — Cokie was still respectable, to give you a clue — but we still recognize Mara Liasson, and we’re sorry to hear that she’s been slumming at Fox News in a role only has-been Carter pollster Pat Caddell is fit to serve:

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.

According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

You reach a point, if you’re a Daily Blogger, when you’ve exhausted all the go-to imagery. But then you realize: Fuck it. It works.

NPR reporter pressured over Fox role [Politico]

After their recent ratings-grabbing series of “production errors,” Fox News management is promising to really get serious about firing the interns this time if it ever happens again:

That means we will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements. To share a key quote from today’s meeting: “It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on.”

If the WiFi at our Remote Office was working right now, we’d hunt down a ferociously clever graphic illustrating Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck “getting it on.” As it stands, we’re limited by what we can squeeze through our iPhone. Consider yourself blessed by our technical difficulties.

Fox News Management Fed Up by Mistakes [Fishbowl DC, via Think Progress]

Fox News: “Sen. Joe Lieberman (R-CT)” [Media Matters]

In what may be an historic moment, Fox News faired and balanced its production errors today, displaying anti-Palin tome Going Rouge when they meant to show fiction bestseller Going Rogue.

Twice.

The only possible explanation is that Virginia Foxx left behind some blotter paper after her last visit, which innocent Fox control-room proles mistook for Happy Teddy Bear Sweets. Either that, or their own poll showing that two-thirds of Americans — and more than half of Republicans — don’t have a problem with Obama bowing to foreign leaders, really harshed their mellow.

Fox Shows Cover Of Palin Takedown Book Instead Of Going Rogue [TPM]