posted May 08, 2006 03:49 PM            

"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.

posted May 08, 2006 05:20 PM            

Let me see if I can switch that light on for you. The operative words here are 19 percent, 18 to 24 and 9 percent.

"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."

Hardly earthshaking acoustic and certainly not enough to account for the major declines in readership at lying news outlets. 19% of age group 18-24 who aren't into reading newspapers anyway.

This is however.

"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."

posted May 08, 2006 05:36 PM            

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11 percent of Americans said Fox News

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Wow! Impressive... no really... what a victory for FoxNews capturing 11% of Americans.

"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."

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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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Check out The Media Center, and you'll see what I've said is true. If you like I'll find the link for you. I looked it up earlier, but decided to just go with a simple statement.
http://www.mediacenter.org/ (Click an article, any article)

Even our old favorite from Pew:

"Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists
Online Newspaper Readership Countering Print Losses
June 26, 2005" http://people-press.org/reports/index.php?TopicID=1

"News Audiences Increasingly Politicized
Online News Audience Larger, More Diverse
June 8, 2004"

posted May 08, 2006 05:46 PM            

Fox News isn't available worldwide.

Don't bother, I know who they are and it's immaterial in any event.

posted May 08, 2006 06:03 PM            

Associated Press
May 8, 2006 3:50 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Newspaper circulation fell 2.5% in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as more people turned to the Internet and other media outlets for news and information.

The decline in average paid weekday circulation was about the same as the previous six-month reporting cycle for the period ending last September, according to the Newspaper Association of America, a trade group.

Average paid circulation at Sunday newspapers fell 3.1% versus the same period a year ago, also a comparable decline with the last time circulation tallies were reported, the NAA said.

The figures were based on NAA's analysis of circulation figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a separate group which reports figures on individual newspapers but not industrywide data.

NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION
USA Today 2,272,815
The Wall Street Journal 2,049,786
The New York Times 1,142,464
Los Angeles Times 851,832
The Washington Post 724,242
New York Daily News 708,477
New York Post 673,379
Chicago Tribune 579,079
The Boston Globe 397,288

Despite the declines in paid copies, the NAA also reported Monday that newspaper-run Web sites had an 8% increase in viewers in the first quarter. The data from Nielsen/NetRatings found that newspaper Web sites averaged 56 million users in the period, or 37% of all online users in the period, the NAA said.

According to Audit Bureau data, Gannett Co.'s USA Today remained the top-selling newspaper with 2,272,815 copies, up 0.09% from the same period a year ago; while The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., was second with 2,049,786, down 1%.

Several top newspapers reported significant declines in the period, including Tribune Co.'s Los Angeles Times, down 5.4% at 851,832; the Washington Post, down 3.7% at 724,242; the New York Daily News, also down 3.7% at 708,477. News Corp.'s New York Post slipped 0.7% to 673,379.

The largest slump at a major daily came at the San Francisco Chronicle, where average paid weekday circulation fell 15.6% to 398,246 as the newspaper continued to cut back on less desirable circulation such as copies paid for by advertisers and then distributed for free.

Patricia Hoyt, a spokeswoman for the Chronicle, said the cutbacks began at the beginning of last year and involved copies that "advertisers didn't value, were quite costly and essentially had no impact on our readership."

The Chronicle, which is owned by Hearst Corp., reported a similar decline in paid circulation for the previous six-month reporting period that ended last September.

Several other large newspapers also reported declines, including the Boston Globe, down 8.5% to 397,288, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, down 6.7% to 365,011. The Globe is owned by The New York Times Co. and the Journal-Constitution by Cox Enterprises Inc.

Besides USA Today, a handful of other major newspapers reported modest circulation gains in the period: The New York Times, up 0.5% at 1,142,464; Tribune Co.'s Chicago Tribune, up 0.9% at 579,079; and the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., up 0.9% at 398,329. The Star-Ledger is owned by Advance Publications Inc.

Copyright © 2006 Associated Press

Corrections & Amplifications:

An earlier version of this story said that newspaper circulation fell 2.6%. A correction was made by the Audit Bureau to figures reported for The (Baltimore) Sun, which affected the overall industry calculation made by the NAA. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114709928365646632.html?mod=mm_media_marketing_hs_left

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posted May 08, 2006 06:07 PM              

fox news (11) cnn (11) abc (4)

posted May 08, 2006 06:15 PM              

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Fox News is the most trusted news source in America acoustic.--jwhop

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how can foxnews be most trusted with only 11% ?????

posted May 08, 2006 06:22 PM            

"Younger people use online sources most - being the first choice among 19 percent aged between 18 and 24 compared to just 3 percent in the 55-64 age range. But 56 percent overall valued the opportunity to obtain news online - South Koreans being the most enthusiastic at 85 percent. Britain was on 57 percent and the US on 60 percent."

"The most trusted specific news sources mentioned without prompting by Americans include FOX News (mentioned by 11%), CNN (11%), ABC (4%), NBC (4%), National Public Radio (3%), CBS (3%), Microsoft/MSN (2%), USA Today (2%), New York Times (2%), CNN.com (1%), Time Magazine (1%), and friends/family (1%)."

posted May 08, 2006 06:36 PM            

Only 29% of Americans agree the media reports all sides of the story....bias.

The most trusted news sources mentioned by Americans without prompting are
Fox News 11%, CNN 11%, ABC 4%, NBC 4%, NPR 3%, CBS 3%, Microsoft/MSN 2%, USA Today 2%, NY Times 2%, CNN.com 1%, Time Magazine 1% and friends/family 1%.

posted May 16, 2006 06:43 PM              

Wasn't there a problem with Fox news a few years ago because people were complaining they wouldn't report the whole truth?