Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted: poll

[ECH1969]

One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions.

Results of a poll of more than 10,000 adults in 10 countries by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters Group Plc and The Media Center were released on Wednesday, with an additional finding that media worldwide were trusted by an average of 61 percent of respondents compared with 52 percent who said they trusted their governments.

Germans were unique in the survey for naming newspapers more than TV as their most important news source, by a margin of 45 percent to 30 percent.

Among South Koreans, who have a comparatively low trust of media in general, 34 percent said the Internet was their most important source of news compared with 9 percent worldwide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060503/tv_nm/media_survey_dc

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Faux News? TRUSTED???????

Maybe they only interviewed people who watch TV. I've given up on TV news programs and only listen to streaming radio for my news.

[LSparkle]

2. By ITS VIEWERS, maybe ...

but by the public at large, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO ...

[marmar]

8. That probably explains the results...

It's brownshirt viewing audience is most likely to call it "most trusted," while the majority of us with a brain are skeptical of all sources.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. No, it's reasonable to expect that result

FoxNews viewers trust Fox to tell them what they want to hear. I know it's a delusion to think it's trustworthy, but they would be expected to say it is.

What I want to hear is the unvarnished truth, which you will never hear on FoxNews.

[marmar]

10. Exactly. That's what I was saying...

sorry if it didn't quite come off that way.

[leQ]

11. just where can you get such presentations of reality? (n/t)

[Jack Rabbit]

12. My own recommendation

First of all, in the mildest terms possible, fuck the US corporate-owned MSM. They failed us miserably during the run up to the Iraq invasion and haven't owed up to it. It is the function of a free press in a democratic society to provide the public with facts and let the chips fall where they may. A person who was getting his information at that time from CNN or The New York Times was a badly misinformed as somebody watching FoxNews 24/7.

Some surveys have shown that people who get their "news" from Jon Stewart are better informed than those who get theirs from a mainstream source. That is a damning indictment of the state of American journalism.

I get my news on the web. Yes, I really have killed my television. This is a combination of the foreign press, such as the BBC or The Guardian (London) from Britain or Haaretz or the Daily Star (Beirut) from the Middle East. Also, a good dose of alternative media, such as Pacifica Radio, but I would take that with a grain of salt; at its best, Pacifica is very, very good and at its worst, it's FoxNews on the left. Finally, their is what I like to call "fringe establishment" media, such as The Nation, and Salon.com. Progressive/left digests like CommonDreams and TruthOut are good sources of opinion. One are also advised to balance this with some respectable conservative opinion, such as from The National Review or conservative columnists like George Will in The Washington Post.

Raw Story is something that generally fits into the alternative media category, but while it is slanted, it is usually accurate. There aren't enough good things to say about the work done by Larisa Alexandrovna, our own Lala_rawraw, on the imminent crisis in Iran being manufactured by the Bush regime. I recommend that site.

[havocmom]

3. The delusional who rely on FAUX to keep them stoned on propaganda

are probably pretty loyal & trusting of thems that reinforce their delusions.

[quiet.american]

6. We'd had a discussion about this. Completely misleading headline.

Someone posted on this earlier. Fox is only most "trusted" amongst 11% out of 100% of viewers. 11% - FAUX, 11% CNN, 4% ABC = 26%. That leaves 74% choosing "Other."

So, not surprisingly, this headline is completely FAUX.

[Clovis Sangrail]

13. exactly

after actually reading the article I scratched my head over the headline.

[xxqqqzme]

4. this is it - right here

the internet is the only place I get news anymore, Olberman I watch as entertainment, 2 see if 'Countdown' will cover what I've been reading online.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. This actually makes sense.

How many of us on DU trust any media outlet? Fox probably IS most trusted, simply because none of us trust ANY of them!

[underpants]

14. That is what is going on here

I actually watched ABC WNT last week and was laughing through most of it.

Sorry they can't be trusted anymore.

Of course the more you watch Fox the more you are misinformed-that has been proven.

http://www.alternet.org/story/16892

[uppityperson]

7. FOX, the happy news channel (per UPjr age 12)

Oct 2001, UPjr said he liked one station's news because it was the happy channel, they gave happy news that everything was ok rather than the bad news of the other stations. I checked what he was watching and it was FOX. I asked him about it recently and he rolled his eyes at me.

[dipsydoodle]

15. I've never seen Fox News

other than in Outfoxed. To what extent do they create news rather than report news ?

[geomon666]

16. I trust Fox News

to feed me only lies and distortions. I trust them to provide for me a calming reality to which I continue a blissfully unaware existence. Where up is down and right is wrong. I trust them to keep me in the dark from the brutal reality of modern America.

I trust Fox News to tell me the truth, just as I trust George Bush to keep me safe.

[TankLV]

17. Boy - can you say "schizophrenic"?

Can I even spell it correctly?!

[Kire]

19. you spelled it right

come on over to the mental health support group, we'll help you spell other things too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=276

[fujiyama]

18. Interesting

that both Al Jazeera and Fox come out on top in their "respective regions".

It shows that fanatics in the US have more in common with their counterparts in the Arab world than they would like to believe. Both stations are known for sensationalism and being outlets of propaganda.

Me thinks the Germans and South Koreans are pretty smart in not getting news from TV...though BBC is not nearly as bad as either Fox or Al Jazeera (though Fox is by far the worst of this group)...