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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:52PM (#839858)

    I think your friend's problem is that while she accurately recognizes that the mainstream media is biased and generally awful, she does not recognize that the conspiracy peddlers are even worse. So, it's just a lack of critical thinking skills, or critical thinking skills not being applied consistently.

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday May 07 2019, @09:31AM

    by driverless (4770) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @09:31AM (#840063)

    There's a bit more to it than that, she's from a country that's torn by racial violence and is close to civil war but feels that the world media is ignoring the brewing catastrophe there, so she goes to conspiracy-theory sites who cover it indirectly by publishing batshit-crazy racist crap. And then alongside that they also publish a pile of equally crazy nonsense which she picks up as collateral damage. I think it may be some type of reaction to trauma, but then I'm not a psychologist, just guessing around here.