The United States finds itself dead last in media trust among 92,000 news consumers polled across 46 countries, according to a poll conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford. Only 29% of Americans surveyed trust the media. Finland is the country with the highest degree of media trust at 65%.
Rick Edmonds of Poynter noted that the Reuters Institute “found some improvement in trust in nearly all the countries surveyed — probably thanks to COVID-19 coverage — but not in the U.S. where the low rating was flat year to year.”
Indeed, there is a great degree of polarization in the US, which makes conservatives very hostile towards the media. Per the study, 75% of right-leaning respondents believe that media coverage of right wing views is biased.
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