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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 ilPapa on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:33AM (2 children)
When have you ever heard Tucker Carlson "call bullshit on his own side"? When have you ever heard Tucker Carlson admit to having made a mistake?
Also, Tim Pool doesn't really "call bullshit on his own side" because his side is not what he claims it is. He's made a career out of being the "lib who supports white supremacy". At some point, you are what you support, you know?
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @12:56PM (1 child)
Tim Pool is half Korean. Really doubt he supports white supremacy.
All the time, actually. That is, he's a populist who's always calling bullshit on the power elites.
You're not gonna see that if you're as steeped in the tribal narrative as your words seem to indicate. In fact it's quite telling how far identitarians have slid along the spectrum that they now call everyone who doesn't want to climb their pyramid of victimhood alt-right Nazis, when those people haven't changed their views and as little as five years ago called themselves progressive.
To me it seems tragic that after watching Republicans go berserk over the Benghazi and Fast and Furious episodes that they have themselves entered a rectal-cranial recursion so intense that it is about to collapse into a singularity, without even a tiny, tiny shred of self-awareness that that is what's happening.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:18PM
Would you like to see a list of prominent jews who supported Nazis?
Forget the fact that Tim Pool constantly hosts white supremacists on his podcast and amplifies their message. Just a cursory search of his discord discourse demonstrates his true affinity:
https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/search?q=consider+the+assertion&s=91 [discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja]
You are still welcome on my lawn.