Title: Which news organization is the most trusted? The answer is complicated. | Pew Research Center
Headings: Which news organization is the most trusted? The answer is complicated.
Which news organization is the most trusted? The answer is complicated.
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Content: The BBC is recognized by a greater portion of respondents (76%), but is similarly more trusted (36%) than distrusted (7%). 4 Beware of drawing distinctions. They may not be significant. Any effort to draw distinctions between different news sources must keep in mind that survey data are subject to a margin of sampling error, and one should use appropriate caution. We will not characterize one source as more trusted than another if the differences between them are so small that they could have occurred just by chance as a result of sampling error. Moreover, many small differences may pass a test of statistical significance but be substantively meaningless. This is the reason why, in the graphics that you see in our report, we group sources in broad categories such as “ Sources Trusted by more than 50% of Panelists” and “ Sources More Trusted than Distrusted .” For example, The Guardian, Bloomberg and The New Yorker sit next to each other in the “more trusted than distrusted” section of the adjacent chart. Statistically, their ratios of trust over distrust are equivalent (1.7, 1.4 and 1.4, respectively). Topics
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Amy Mitchell is director of journalism research at Pew Research Center.