Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted-poll

[Neil D]

Tuesday May 2 10:30 PM ET

One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions.

Results of a poll of more than 10,000 adults in 10 countries by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters Group Plc and The Media Center were released on Wednesday, with an additional finding that media worldwide were trusted by an average of 61 percent of respondents compared with 52 percent who said they trusted their governments.

"National TV is still the most trusted news source by a wide margin, although the Internet is gaining ground among the young," said Doug Miller, president of London-based research firm GlobeScan, which conducted the polling.

"The jury is still out on blogs," he added. "Just as many people distrust them as trust them."

The survey confirmed that media consumption is shifting online for younger generations, as 19 percent of those aged 18 to 24 named the Internet as their most important source of news compared with 9 percent overall.

Seventy-two percent of all respondents said they followed the news closely, including 67 percent of those 18 to 24 years old.

Asked to name the news source they most trusted, without any prompting, 59 percent of Egyptians said Al Jazeera, 52 percent of Brazilians said Rede Globo, 32 percent of Britons said the BBC, 22 percent of Germans said ARD and 11 percent of Americans said Fox News, each leading their respective nations.

The most trusted news brands globally were the BBC, Britain's publicly funded broadcaster, and CNN, which is owned by the world's biggest media conglomerate, Time Warner Inc..

Three Internet portals -- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft/MSN -- received the next highest trust ratings across the 10 countries, when respondents were prompted with 16 different brand names.

Although trust in media has grown in most countries over the past four years, the survey found, 28 percent of people across the 10 countries either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement: "In the past year I have stopped using a specific media source because it lost my trust."

Germans were unique in the survey for naming newspapers more than TV as their most important news source, by a margin of 45 percent to 30 percent.

Among South Koreans, who have a comparatively low trust of media in general, 34 percent said the Internet was their most important source of news compared with 9 percent worldwide.

More than 1,000 people were surveyed in March and April in each of the United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia and South Korea.

Reuters is a global news and information provider and The Media Center is a nonprofit think tank that researches media-related issues

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[Dr. Shane]

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BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera

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BBC is labeled liberal by conservatives

FoxNews is labeled conservative by liberals

Al Jazeera is labeled as sympathetic to terrorists by the west.

Yet these are the three most trusted.

[Neil D]

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BBC is labeled liberal by conservatives

FoxNews is labeled conservative by liberals

Al Jazeera is labeled as symAl Jazeera pathetic to terrorists by the west.

Yet these are the three most trusted.

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Depends upon what part of the world you are in, Shane....and what culture.....

Al Jazeera is a trusted name in news in the arab world, and in some parts of asia. Have you read the english version of it? You might find it enlightening....and challenges your beliefs as well....

The BBC is concidered very conservative in some liberal circles and gives that air about them. And you have to admit, they havent changed thier format in 20 years...Now THATS CONSERVATIVE!

As for Foxnews, well, there is no excuse for them... bringing out the Republican agenda many times aday...and giving a substandard democrative/liberal/opposing view, whose to argue it...

[Dr. Shane]

FOXNews is a pioneer. They deliver the news in a way that others haven't done before. Others have claimed to be objective. That means they claim to report a story without taking side. Many of us don't believe they do that but... that is what they claim.

FOXNews doesn't claim to be objective. They claim to be fair and balanced. That would mean giving all sides of a story a voice. In reality, for FOXNews, it means giving both liberals and conservative a voice. They do not give the terrorists a voice - - - like Al Jazeera does. I do see room for improvement in FOXNews but right now it is unfair to compare them to others news networks because that would be like comparing apples and oranges. The others claim to be objective and FOXNews makes no such claim.

I don't read Al Jazeera and have no interest in going there. Had I lived during WW2, I wouldn't have been interested in the Nazi's take on the news either. Some say Mein Kampf is good reading. That is something I will never know.

I am sure to some left-wing extreamists, the BBC is conservative. Some conservatives consider anyone left of them to be liberal. Some liberals also consider anyone right of them to be conservative. So I am sure there are some far lefties that view the BBC as conservative.

[gina i]

Does it really matter? You guys are arguing over news sources. In my opinion, every single news station has some sort of bias. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in business.