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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: 2) by driverless on Monday May 06 2019, @06:03AM (2 children)
They're in an odd position there, I have friends who are kinda right-wing conspiracy-theory people but they read Al Jazeera, which would be kinda the last news source I'd expect them to go to because of their political views.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @06:07AM (1 child)
For an unbiased source on the US activities you need to read real news from China (sorry you will have to translate or learn the language). For example, this trade war that Trumps says he is winning. Billion of Chinese have responded in surveys that they would prefer to starve than let Trump win on trade.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @07:51AM
And happen to be a high ranking member of The Party. I am sure the reports given to Xi and friends is quite reliable, however I wouldn't trust most of the state-owned propaganda too much more than the local corporate shills.