US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media, Reuters Institute report finds

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[Tench_Coxe]

The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries, a report released Wednesday found. That’s worse than Poland, worse than the Philippines, worse than Peru. (Finland leads at 65%.)

The annual digital news report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford also found some improvement in trust in nearly all the countries surveyed — probably thanks to COVID-19 coverage — but not in the U.S. where the low rating was flat year to year.

[Tench_Coxe]

Does this surprise anyone?

[Paladin2]

What is Mr. Potato[e] Head’s response?

[OttawaFreeper]

And they are not doing too well in my country at 45% or Australia at 43 or the UK at 36 or France at 29.

[cgbg]

On the IQ scale the lowest 29% are close to moron level—sounds about right....

[dfwgator]

That’s the Global Consolidation of Media in action.

[dfwgator]

At least Australia has Sky News Australia. That’s now my go to news network.

[Sertorius]

If this was any other category, the media would be clamoring for reform to correct the problem.

[Bayan]

Surprised that many people trust them. 95% of the Media has abandoned all journalistic ethics and objectivity in favor of agenda driven, bigoted partisanship.

[virgil]

It’s the one poll that I would believe. It’s totally deserved. US MSM stinks.

[GOP Poet]

Not in the least bit surprising. The U.S. media should be ashamed of themselves and truly embarrassed! My guess is they don’t even have a clue and think it is either a flawed survey OR that it is their RIGHT to shove their BS down everyone’s throats. So screw these surveys.

[falcon99]

Really, 29% trust the media! That’s 29% too much. Must be the brain dead democrats and Leftists, they make about 29% of the population.

[PGR88]

Its not that bad - They didn’t poll North Koreans.

[joshua c]

do they care?

[NWFree]

Would need the brains of a turnip to believe our fake news.

[albie]

Looks like we do ok in the weather category! Wonder where we stand in the obits?

[Bullish]

Of course our media is not smart enough to figure out why.

[rigelkentaurus]

Last? Isn’t there something even lower?

[Gay State Conservative]

Reuters Institute ? I wonder if Reuters understands that they're seen as less reliable than any other news outlet in the country?

[Dr. Sivana]

If I don’t trust the media, I would I believe anything from the Reuters Institute?

[ConservativeInPA]

It’s that high?