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The most — and the Least — Trusted News Sources in the U.S.


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Maybe it’s the accent. When it comes to news, Americans deemed British media more trustworthy than their U.S. counterparts in a world where “fake news” has emerged as an ideological battle cry and less of an oxymoron.

 

The most trusted news source in the U.S. is The Economist — a weekly magazine published in the U.K., according to a recent survey from the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute.

 

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 sixth, while the U.K.’s The Guardian clinched the seventh spot. The U.S.-based Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News rounded out the top 10 trusted names in journalism.

 

The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp. NWS, -0.34% NWSA, -0.91%  the parent of MarketWatch.

 

At the other extreme, Occupy Democrats — a political website with a self-claimed agenda of counterbalancing the Republican Tea Party — won 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.

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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 attacked mainstream media as “fake news” in response to unfavorable coverage.

Ironically, Trump was also viewed as untrustworthy, with a credibility score that was better than the internet but worse than social-media sources.

 

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All the western or zionist backed medias. do you see any name from Russian, Chinese or Iranian news channels? those who present the real truth news? PressTV? Russia today? no wonder the world is how it is now...

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1 hour ago, saeed_dc said:

All the western or zionist backed medias. do you see any name from Russian, Chinese or Iranian news channels? those who present the real truth news? PressTV? Russia today? no wonder the world is how it is now...

Please understand that most Americans can not speak or read Russian, Chinese or Iranian.  Which would seem to make those choices unlikely to show up on trusted outlets for news.

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1 hour ago, OwnFollower said:

Please understand that most Americans can not speak or read Russian, Chinese or Iranian.  Which would seem to make those choices unlikely to show up on trusted outlets for news.

 

Those websites publish news in English language. Please do some research before commenting.

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On 8/6/2017 at 0:35 PM, OwnFollower said:

Please understand that most Americans can not speak or read Russian, Chinese or Iranian.  Which would seem to make those choices unlikely to show up on trusted outlets for news.

rt have more then just russia language it have uk usa and much more

rt been about  for about 12 years i think

 

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Okay.

 

Who reads news from:  Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Sao Tome and Principe, and San Marino?  or

 

Namibia, Mauritius, Surinam, Mauritania, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Laos, Thailand?  or

 

South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, New Zealand, Australia?

 

Simple fact:  Current super power prevails (Why people like to immigrate to the US, and not Iran or Russia?  Just saying';  no offense, please), until the new super power emerges and dominates. For example, from "where the sun never sets" to "the land of the free and brave."  That's how our world is.

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Maybe we need Diogenes, that he wandered around ancient Greece carrying a lantern and searching for an honest man. In this case honest news.

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30 minutes ago, 0bin said:

San Marino is nice place, I suggest you visiting when you have chance.

San Marino is a mountainous microstate surrounded by north-central Italy. Among the world’s oldest republics, it retains much of its historic architecture.

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2 hours ago, vitorio said:

Maybe we need Diogenes, that he wandered around ancient Greece carrying a lantern and searching for an honest man. In this case honest news.

No (we don't need to wander all life looking for an impossibility) but need to get out of Plato's cave.  That is, we need to awaken (as Buddha preached).

 

 The reality (honesty and dishonesty are two sides of one coin): 

Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.
When something is right,
Something else is wrong.
Knowledge and ignorance
Depend on each other.

It has been like this since the beginning.
How could it be otherwise now?
Wanting to chuck out one
And hold onto the other
Makes for a ridiculous comedy.

You must still deal with everything
Ever-changing,
Even when you say it’s wonderful.

~ Ryokan ("The Great Fool") (1758-1831)

 

 

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10 hours ago, 0bin said:

I take the ball to ask something I want know:

what is the difference between Iran and Persia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

Iran (/ɪˈrɑːn/ (About this sound listen), also /ɪˈræn/;[10][11]Persian: ایران‎‎ Irān [ʔiːˈɾɒːn] (About this sound listen)), also known as Persia[12]

Is it the same?

 

First answer is here, A. Fishman, Joshua (2010). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: Disciplinary and Regional Perspectives (Volume 1). Oxford University Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0195374926. "“Iran” and “Persia” are synonymous" The former has always been used by the Iranian speaking peoples themselves, while the latter has served as the international name of the country in various languages

 

 

Also about language Iranian is not a language, or is it?

 

Official languages Persian
Recognised regional languages
 
  

 

 

Iran is the newer name for the country Persia. the language is called Farsi/Parsi/Persian.

yes Iranian is not a language, it's referred to anyone who is born in the country Iran. 

some people in the news channels don't pronounce Iran right which is kinda funny, it's not i-ran.

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Mentioned as trusted:

 

-The Economist

-Reuters

-BBC

-The Guardian

-The Wall Street Journal

 

Yeah, sure...:tooth:   :lmao:

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All of them, mentioned in the list and not mentioned in the list are lairs. Left wing, right wing, central wing, no matter what country. All news media lie whenever it's suitable for them. This includes even Indian media. All of them misrepresent stories and portray others are bad guys. I can even go onto say that media are always in the competition with politicians / leaders about who is worse liar and bad for the people.

 

That is why, we at nsane.forums prefer to keep these political news away and stick to technology related news. Also having said, some sources still have some, even though little, credibility to them when compared to some outright lie media out there.

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One thing the News media never  knows but what  they been told  and this could not be true or they may only being told what they want the media too know. On top of that many news medias are biased to the left or the right and over blows or lies every story about the opposing side . Then they are some outlets that don't do nothing but tell lies.   One thing only about  3 out of 10 in the USA have much faith the News media  is telling the truth and when it's posted on social media sites were many users look for news too post that fit  there agenda  it even sinks lower .

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15 minutes ago, saeed_dc said:

It's not about left or right, that's for domestic purposes. it's about east and west.

 

Lies everywhere if you ask me about it.

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2 hours ago, DKT27 said:

All of them, mentioned in the list and not mentioned in the list are l[ia]rs... I can even go onto say that media are always in the competition with [...- worse liar...  That is why, we at nsane.forums prefer to keep these political news away and stick to technology related news....

In jest, brother:

 

:lol:  Technology [and science] news are free of politics (and I have a bridge for sale.  ;)), eh?

 

Let nsane.forums (a role model  ;)) rule the world.  :lol:

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2 minutes ago, adi said:

In jest, brother:

 

:lol:  Technology [and science] news are free of politics (and I have a bridge for sale.  ;)), eh?

 

Let nsane.forums (a role model  ;)) rule the world.  :lol:

 

No they are not. Take Intel vs AMD for example. But depending on the source, they are more likely to report on facts rather than opinions I think.

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52 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

Lies everywhere if you ask me about it.

Chashma utaro, phir dekho yaro, duniya nai hai, chehra purana

 

Remove your glasses, friends, and then see: the world is new, but the face[s] is old.  ;)

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1 hour ago, saeed_dc said:

... it's about east and west.

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

~ Rudyard Kipling ("The Ballad of East and West")

[An interpretation] This may be read as saying that 'it is indisputable that geographic points of the compass will never meet in this life, but that when two strong men [or equals] meet, the accidents of birth, whether of nationality, race, or family, do not matter at all -- the mutual respect such individuals have, each for the character, prowess, and integrity of the other, are their only criteria for judging and accepting one another. Any differences in ethnicity between such individuals are never even considered.

 

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