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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 06 2019, @12:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the shocking-news dept.

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Maybe it's the accent. When it comes to news, in a world where "fake news" has become an ideological battle cry rather than an oxymoron, Americans deem British media outlets more trustworthy than their U.S. counterparts.

The most trusted news source in the U.S. is the Economist — a venerable weekly magazine published in the U.K. — according, at least, to a recent survey conducted by the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute.

The second most reliable news source, in the view of voluntary survey respondents, is public television (with the Public Broadcasting Service separately ranking sixth among survey respondents), followed by Reuters and BBC. National Public Radio placed just ahead of PBS at No. 5, while the U.K.'s the Guardian clinched the seventh spot. The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News rounded out the 10 most trusted brands. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp. NWS, +0.49% NWSA, +0.65% , the parent of MarketWatch.

At the other extreme, Occupy Democrats — a political website with a self-professed agenda of counterbalancing the right-wing Tea Party — took the dubious honor of most untrustworthy.

BuzzFeed, Breitbart and Infowars also scored dismally on the trust-o-meter, with a BuzzFeed representative questioning the poll's merit and methods. "This is not a poll of how much trust Americans have in their news outlets. It's an open-ended, methodologically flawed survey of people who happen to fill out a form on the homepage of their local news outlet," said Matt Mittenthal, spokesman for BuzzFeed News. "No one familiar with how polling works would consider this to be reliable or scientific."

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-most-and-the-least-trusted-news-sources-in-the-us-2017-08-03


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ilPapa on Monday May 06 2019, @01:18AM (8 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Monday May 06 2019, @01:18AM (#839462) Journal

    If the news said it was sunny outside, I'd take a fucking umbrella.

    If you need the news to tell you whether or not it's sunny outside, you probably should carry an umbrella with you at all times.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @01:30AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @01:30AM (#839466)

    We could have the reporters from CNN standing in a ditch waist deep in water to show how bad things are while their camera crew stand in a small puddle with the water slightly up their shoes. When they start lying about the weather you really have to wonder WTF is wrong with them.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday May 06 2019, @02:08PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 06 2019, @02:08PM (#839608) Journal

      When they start lying about the weather you really have to wonder WTF is wrong with them.

      Bzzzzzt.

      You have to wonder who is paying them.

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:02AM (5 children)

      by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:02AM (#839999) Homepage

      One of 'em already did that, literally. Squatted down in hip-deep water to make it look drowning-deep, to shovel some agenda (and was roundly mocked when the truth leaked out) Don't recall if it was CNN or MSNBC, but one of the very-MSMs.

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      • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:28AM (4 children)

        by ilPapa (2366) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:28AM (#840030) Journal

        One of 'em already did that, literally. Squatted down in hip-deep water to make it look drowning-deep, to shovel some agenda (and was roundly mocked when the truth leaked out) Don't recall if it was CNN or MSNBC, but one of the very-MSMs.

        Just for the record: that story has been debunked. A meme was created in 2018 purporting to be from Hurricane Florence that was actually from a 2008 special about Hurricane Ike in which Anderson Cooper was walking through a street in Texas and was demonstrating the variations in water depth because people were drowning in what looked like shallow water. The video the still was taken from showed Cooper walking across what looked like a flat street where there was actually a ditch created by the flooding washing away pavement.

        The whole story, shared widely by MAGA jackoffs, was bullshit. But you probably already knew that, but don't care any more because your hatred for any media that does not celebrate the greatness of Donald Trump has so distorted your sense of honesty that you believe lying about your enemies is now fair play.

        https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/ [snopes.com]

        https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-viral-picture-of-anderson-cooper-in-deep-water-is-not-from-florence/507-595175925 [wkyc.com]

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        • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:44AM (3 children)

          by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:44AM (#840635) Homepage

          [looks] Nope, not the same one. Some other reporter (definitely not Cooper; also, this guy at least got wet, Cooper is wearing waders). The one I'm thinking of had chainlink fence all along the shoreline with the camera crew lined up next to it, and the guy was actually taped standing up from where he'd been squatting. IIRC it was from Houston and H.Harvey.

          "But you probably already knew that, but don't care any more because your hatred for any media that does not celebrate the greatness of Donald Trump has so distorted your sense of honesty that you believe lying about your enemies is now fair play."

          If I paid that much attention to media, I'd have to point out that perhaps we've picked up bad habits from our enemies.

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          • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Wednesday May 08 2019, @05:45AM (2 children)

            by ilPapa (2366) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @05:45AM (#840650) Journal

            Nope, not the same one. Some other reporter (definitely not Cooper; also, this guy at least got wet, Cooper is wearing waders). The one I'm thinking of had chainlink fence all along the shoreline with the camera crew lined up next to it, and the guy was actually taped standing up from where he'd been squatting. IIRC it was from Houston and H.Harvey.

            I was in Houston through Hurricane Harvey. Right smack in the middle of it. If there was some CNN or MSNBC correspondent squatting in a puddle to make it look deep, you would be able to find a link to it, which you cannot. The street in front of my house was under 50 inches of water, so I seriously doubt anyone had to fake being in deep water during Harvey. The water on I-59 was almost all the way up to the bottom of the overpasses. They were taking people off of rooftops with helicopters on my block because many of the houses are low-lying.

            You made an accusation against "the MSM". Put up or shut up.

            https://images.app.goo.gl/Z1w5n7aSnzTj8ofL6 [app.goo.gl]

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            • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:02AM (1 child)

              by Reziac (2489) on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:02AM (#841140) Homepage

              I know what it was like; friend had water up to his house. Not saying there wasn't deep water (tho not as deep as the previous big flood!) -- in fact that was what made this ridiculous, no need to fake it, coulda gone swimming outright just about anywhere. Anyway if I happen to see it again you'll be the next to know. I don't think I saved it, because journalism credibility is already in the dumpster, what's one more?

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              • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Thursday May 09 2019, @05:37AM

                by ilPapa (2366) on Thursday May 09 2019, @05:37AM (#841213) Journal

                I know what it was like; friend had water up to his house. Not saying there wasn't deep water (tho not as deep as the previous big flood!) -- in fact that was what made this ridiculous, no need to fake it, coulda gone swimming outright just about anywhere. Anyway if I happen to see it again you'll be the next to know.

                Thanks. I keep a bit of a scrapbook about my year in Houston that ended immediately after Harvey. I'm sorry if I came down hard on you. I know it's politically correct among those on the right to complain about the "MSM", but the fact is journalism is not only alive and well, but doing a lot better now than it has since the 1970s. The movement on the right to try to convince people that nothing you see on the news is true is the most Orwellian thing I've seen in my lifetime and it gets my hackles up.

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