This morning the Quinnipiac poll reveals, “FOX News offers the most trusted network and cable news coverage, 29 percent of American voters say, when asked to compare the major TV news outlets.”

The good news for Fox News in the survey is that they appear to have the most loyal and trusting audience of all the major news networks. When Quinnpiac asked respondents whose news coverage they trusted the most, Fox News leads the way with 29 percent, CNN gets 22 percent, with NBC News and CBS News at 10 percent each, 8 percent for ABC News and 7 percent for MSNBC.

Fox News has a few more detractors as well, but their overall level of trust is comparable to the rest of the networks. The survey found 55 percent of respondents trusted Fox News’ reporting “a great deal” or “somewhat,” compared to 61 percent for CNN, 60 percent for NBC News, 54 percent for CBS News, 54 percent for ABC News, and 52 percent for MSNBC. (The good news for NBC News and programs like “Meet the Press” is that their brand is still seen as distinct from MSNBC’s.) An entire 71 percent said they trusted their local television news “a great deal” or “somewhat.”

Perhaps what is most maddening to everyone in the television news business is that the difference between the most trusted and the least trusted is only 19 percentage points.