![]() ![]() It’s also worth breaking down respondents into groups based on political orientation, to see what differences this can point out regarding trust and the level of financial support being provided to news organizations. Meanwhile, bad trust scores went to Buzzfeed, Breitbart, Infowars, Yahoo, and The Huffington Post. 6.7 million), which shows that despite polar opposite perceptions, people are willing to grant an audience to both groups.Īlso scoring well for trust included outlets such as Reuters, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, and The Guardian. Interestingly, both The Economist and Occupy Democrats have close to the same amount of Facebook likes (8.2 million vs. On the far opposite side of the spectrum? It’s Occupy Democrats, an extreme left advocacy group that claims to be the “new counterbalance to the Republican Tea Party”. High Trust, Low TrustĪccording to the survey respondents, The Economist is the most trustworthy news source in media. More on this later in the post, but keep it in mind. Here are results to the question about trustworthiness of specific news sources:īefore we dive into the results, it’s worth noting that respondents were self-selected and tend to skew to the liberal side of the political spectrum. Administered through 28 media outlets around the country, the survey asked respondents how trusting they are of the media, whether they financially support news organizations, and which outlets are the most (and least) trustworthy. Examining The Trust SpectrumĪ new survey by the Trusting News Project helps shed more light on the state of trust in media, revealing the attitudes of 8,728 people in the United States. As a result, the public’s level of trust in mass media has fallen to a low of just 32%. This seems like a simple question – but in the “fake news” era, things haven’t been so straightforward. Which news sources are the most trustworthy? ![]()
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