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Pew is only respected in some quarters.
It was originally founded by the Tribune corporation as "Tribune Research" to produce push polls for the Tribune line of newspapers. Their methodology was considered shoddy by those of us outside of journalism profession, but the Chicago Tribune loved having an in-house organization that could engineer data to back up anything they decided to print.
The name was changed to Pew Research some years after the parent corporation spun the research division off as a separate entity. The corporate history was recounted on the Pew website until about 2008.
You will tend to find journalists touting Pew Research because it is a corporation originally founded by and for the profession.
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