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media more trustworthy than their U.S. counterparts in a world where
oxymoron.
magazine published in the U.K., according to a recent survey from the
The second-most reliable is public television, followed by Reuters and
BBC. Two U.S. nonprofit outlets, NPR and PBS, came in at fifth and
U.S.-based Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning
News rounded out the top 10 trusted names in journalism.
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the parent of MarketWatch.
the dubious honor of being the most untrustworthy in the nation.
Buzzfeed, Breitbart and Infowars also scored dismally on the trust-
meter.
The results were based on a survey of more than 8,000 people conducted
by 28 media organizations in the U.S. Participation was voluntary but
respondents tended to reside near the news outlets that made the
questionnaire available on their websites, and leaned toward the
liberal side of the political spectrum.
The survey also showed that politically liberal respondents were more
trusting than conservatives, while Caucasians were more likely than
non-whites to have confidence in the media.
As the chart below illustrates, the level of trust remained fairly
steady among people who identify themselves as liberals or moderates
regardless of their age; among conservatives, trust dropped off
sharply with age. At the same time, financial support for the media
had a strong correlation with age.
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The debate over trust and journalism has taken on a whole different
tone in recent months as President Donald Trump has vociferously
coverage.
Ironically, Trump was also viewed as untrustworthy, with a credibility
score that was better than social-media sources but worse than the
internet.
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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
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