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Americans trust government more than media
Fox News, CNN score high marks, with Big 3 networks, N.Y. Times among lowest

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Posted: May 4, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern




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Despite an oft-heard sentiment about cheats and liars permeating the realm of government and politics, a new poll suggests Americans have an even lower view of the news media when it comes to trust.

According to a 10-country, 10,000-person poll by the London-based research firm GlobeScan, government in the U.S. ranks ahead of media on trust at 67 to 59 percent.


The result bucks the trend around the rest of the world, where media is trusted by an average of 61 percent compared to 52 percent for governments in the countries polled, which include the UK, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia, and South Korea.




In America, the most trusted specific news sources mentioned without prompting include Fox News, mentioned by 11 percent, CNN (11 percent), ABC (4 percent), NBC (4 percent), National Public Radio (3 percent), CBS (3 percent), Microsoft/MSN (2 percent), USA Today (2 percent), New York Times (2 percent), CNN.com (1 percent), Time Magazine (1 percent), and friends/family (1 percent).

Attitudinally, Americans stand out from citizens of the other countries surveyed on a number of dimensions. They're the most critical of the news media's reporting of all sides of a story; fully 69 percent disagree the media does this. They're also significantly more inclined to disagree (46 percent) that the media reports news accurately; and more likely to agree (68 percent) that the media covers too many 'bad news' stories.

Television is cited as the most important news source by Americans, mentioned first by 50 percent, followed by newspapers (21 percent), Internet (14 percent), and radio (10 percent). Fully 20 percent of American men name the Internet as their most important news source, ranking second only to South Koreans.

Also, Americans (87 percent) are second only to Germans in preferring to check several sources of news rather than rely on just one – a finding correlated with the use of online news sources.

"National TV is still the most trusted news source by a wide margin, although the Internet is gaining ground among the young," said GlobeScan president Doug Miller. "The jury is still out on 'blogs' – just as many people distrust them as trust them."

In fact, the survey found Internet blogs were the least believed source (trusted by 25 percent vs. 23 percent not trusting it ) – with one in two people unable to say whether or not they trusted them.

Fully 28 percent of the people polled report abandoning a news source in the past year because of lack of trust in its content.

Interestingly, Americans (59 percent) and Russians (58 percent) express similar levels of trust in their media "to operate in the best interests of society."

Despite the seemingly poor ranking for American media compared to government, the poll found trust in media has actually increased overall over the last four years, rising in the U.S. from 52 to 59 percent, and in Britain from 29 to 47 percent.

Other key findings across the global spectrum include:


Strong demand across all countries and ages for news: 72 percent follow news closely every day – including two out of three (67 percent) in the 18-24 age range.

Two in three people believe news is reported accurately (65 percent), but more than half (57 percent) believe governments interfere too much with the media and only 42 percent think journalists can report freely. People are divided on whether the media covers all sides of a story, with 41 percent disagreeing.

Nigerians believed most strongly that government interferes too much in the media (75 percent) followed by South Korea (71 percent), Brazil (64 percent), Indonesia (59 percent), Britain (58 percent), India (56 percent), and the U.S. (52 percent).

Three of four (77 percent) prefer to check several news sources instead of relying on just one, especially Internet users.

More men (76 percent) than women (69 percent) said they followed the news closely every day.

Younger people use online sources most, being the first choice among 19 percent aged between 18 and 24 compared to just 3 percent in the 55-64 age range. But 56 percent overall valued the opportunity to obtain news online – South Koreans being the most enthusiastic at 85 percent. Britain was on 57 percent and the U.S. on 60 percent.







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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.

would you expect a right wing influenced site to report otherwise??

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i'm not a democrat, quit calling me one

The survey was done by a London based group. You just hate the results, but alas, too bad.

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.

CBS News is fair, balanced and truthful.

Sincerely,

Dan Rather, Mary Mapes and the DNC

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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
Winston Churchill

Now thats what I call trust!

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

This makes sense. There are many liberal networks on (American) television but only one conservative network: Fox News. Therefore, liberal trust is scattered among many networks, while conservatives put trust in the only network that supports their viewpoint.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

I thought Conservatives hated CNN because it was a liberal slander machine run by Ted Turner? It seem just as many people trust it as fox news.

How many conservative newspapers were listed? none? Conservative magazines? none?

While interesting, I fail to see how you draw any conclusions that would embolden conservatives or make liberals whimper.

CNN tied with FOX at a whopping 11%.

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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

From what I have seen and heard about it (though I have seldom watched it), Newshour with Jim Lehrer is about as truly "fair and balanced" as any news source. I don't trust any news source to be completely honest, though. Fox spins everything to the right, while nearly all other networks spin everything to the left.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

...that was more that ABC and NBC combined.

The truth is all news is slanted in some way, but the majority find Fox and CNN more reliable. CNN was spanked heavily in the past for slanted and bad reporting, and they understandably want to keep market share so now they emulate Fox.

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.