13 November 2005

Americans want objective news; non-commercial news sources 'most trusted'

From Broadcasting & Cable:
A Harris telephone survey commissioned by the Public Relations Society of America and released Thursday found that 61% of the general public generally trusted news on PBS and NPR, while 56% trusted papers like the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or New York Times, and 53% trusted the commercial broadcast and cable news operations. That "trust" category was a combination of three, actually: "trust," "trust completely" and "trust somewhat". Nobody got high numbers for "trust completely," with newspapers topping that category at 13%, followed by noncommercial news at 10% and commercial news at only 4%. Toward the bottom of the trust list were conservative radio talk show hosts at 35%, followed by liberal talk radio hosts at 31%.
ps: if you still get your news from FOX, shame on you.

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