Four UK news sources among top 10 most trusted in US survey

[muriel_volestrangler]

Four of the 10 most trusted sources of news among US readers are based in Britain, according to a survey.

The Economist was the most trusted source, with Reuters third, the BBC fourth and the Guardian seventh, according to a study by University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute.

The least trustworthy sources of news included Breitbart, BuzzFeed and social media. Donald Trump was rated the fifth least trustworthy source of news. Occupy Democrats, which describes itself as a grassroots political organisation, was bottom of the table.



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The other news providers in the top 10 were public television, NPR, PBS, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times and Dallas Morning News.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/09/four-uk-news-sources-among-top-10-most-trusted-in-us-survey

The study: https://www.rjionline.org/reporthtml.html

At the study, there's also a chart of where the average 'trusting consumer' is. A few surprises - those who trust Politico are pretty left, and those who trust Trump aren't as far right as those who trust Fox or the Drudge Report.

[procon]

1. I thought it was encouraging that the most trusted news sources

were the well known MS press that delivered cutting edge news and hard, fact based investigative journalism. The partisan opinion commentaries, however, were not among the most trusted sources.