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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."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Monday May 06 2019, @03:26AM (1 child)
Yeah. What caught my eye immediately was the fact that they ranked them, rather than give an actual score. Maybe the #1 ranked news organization, the Economist, scored only 3%.
One thing I do trust is their greed. They won't play hardball with advertisers. And as I've said before, they are all much more strongly biased towards drama than left or right.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday May 06 2019, @04:36AM
Well, people in the US trust the Economist more, because it's more evenly biased about the US. (Granted "more" is a comparative term.) Also, not all that many people actually read their articles, and it's easier to trust a source if you don't look at it carefully.
Depending on the subject matter, I'd trust the Economist perhaps twice as much as the US source I consider most trustworthy. But if it's about things affecting Britain, that drops considerably. (Even so, they've got a philosophical bias that you need to allow for, but since you aren't their target audience, their twists won't be aimed at you.)
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