No-one trusts a blogger - survey

FOR SOME STRANGE reason, the great unwashed masses trust what they see on the telly more than what they read on the Interweb.

But the web is catching up in terms of credibility, a survey suggests.

Still, in most places the media is regarded as more trustworthy than the local government, except in the US and Britain that is.

Overall, 61 percent of those questioned reckoned the media to be more trustworthy than government. Some 52 percent were more likely to trust their governments. But in the US, 67 percent put more trust in government propaganda against 59 percent who prefer to beleive what the papers say. Some 51 percent of Britons think the Government more trustworthy than the media (47%).

Reuters, the BBC and the Media Centre got pollsters GlobeScan to question over 10,000 adults in 10 countries about how they consume their daily slice of media output.

Some 82 percent said they trusted national TV output the most. Seventy-five percent reckoned national or regional newspaper were pretty trustworthy.

The telly was seen as the most 'important' news source (56%) followed by newspapers (21%), the Internet (9%) and radio (9%).

Fifty-five perent of Americans claimed to find the Interent the most trustworthy place to find news. Mind you, 11 percent said they rated Fox News as the most tustyworthy news sauce on the planet.

Only 23 percent of those asked confessed to believing the blathering of bloggers, although nearly half didn't have a clue.

100 per cent of those we asked said they always trusted what they read on the INQUIRER.* µ

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GlobeScan

* INQ survey of two folk cornered on the streets of Luton. Those that had never heard of the site said they would probably trust it because the interviewer seemed like a nice chap.