Trusted and Non-Trusted News Sources

In news reports the  “The Economist” website was considered to be one of the most trusted news sources.  However, that is misleading because most people (around 65%)  never heard of the Economist and only 13% Trusted it.

Top Trusted News Sources

– many more people consider these reliable versus the number of people considering them to be unreliable

CNN – 54%
NBC – 50%
ABC – 50%
CBS – 46%

FOX – 44%

PBS – 38%
BBC – 36%
NPR – 29%
29-38% of people trust these publicly funded organizations.

New York Times – 34%
USA Today – 33%

Wall Street Journal – 31%
Washington Post – 27%

Moderately Trusted News

– somewhat equal between trust and distrust levels

The Huffington Post – 18%
The Colbert Report – 15%  (ended in 2014)
*** Stephen Colbert is now on  “The Late Show

Breitbart – 4%
Slate – 4%

Distrusted  News Sources

– these news sites/sources often are considered as spreading “fake news” 

Sean Hannity Show – 12%
Al Jazeera America – 9%
Ed Schultz Show 3%
Glen Beck Program – 10%
Rush Limbaugh – 12%
BuzFeed – 2-3%

We will update this listing this week, stay tuned.

 

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