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”
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.