Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted:

[Jon8503]

Tue May 2, 11:00 PM ET
This makes absolutely no sense with their lead and then what you read into the article. Maybe someone can explain this.


LONDON (Reuters) - 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

(rest of the article @ link)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060503/tv_nm/media_survey_dc

[degreesofgray]

1. I trust Fox

to lie, distort, get it wrong, and question my loyalty.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Cherry-picking of the results for the ones US readers may have heard of

They could also have put Rede Globo for Brazil, and ARD for Germany, in the title. And CNN is as 'trusted' in the USA as Fox - see http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbcreut.html .

[enid602]

3. Fox

Strange. Everyone trusts Fox, but no one watches Fox?

[yy4me]

4. This report makes me sick to my stomach.

FOX? Barf!