Trust in UK news organisations tumbles during COVID-19 outbreak: Reuters Institute

[snoop1130]

Trust in UK news organisations tumbles during COVID-19 outbreak: Reuters Institute

 

FILE PHOTO: People watch the TV as Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech, at a pub, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Liverpool, Britain, October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Less than half of Britain's people trust in news organisations as a source for COVID-19 information, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said.

 

The level of trust has fallen throughout the pandemic and about 8 million people in Britain are now at risk of being less informed, uninformed or misinformed about the disease just as the government grapples with a second wave, the Institute said in a report.

 

"The significant growth in the number of people vulnerable to misinformation means the UK is less well equipped to deal with the coronavirus communications crisis during the second wave and the winter ahead," director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen said.

 

Trust in news organisations as a source about the pandemic fell to 45% in August from 57% in April. Daily use of COVID-19 news has dropped 24 percentage points over the same period, to 55% from 79%, the Institute's report said.

 

While most people in the United Kingdom were well informed significant minorities - around 20 million people - felt neither the news media nor the government had explained what people should do in response to the virus.

 

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is a research centre at the University of Oxford that tracks media trends. The Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Thomson Reuters, funds the Reuters Institute.

 

To see the full report: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/communications-coronavirus-crisis-lessons-second-wave

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-27

 

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[Pattaya Spotter]

The news media isn't called "fake news" for nothing...they work hard to earn it every day.

[thaibeachlovers]

IMO that would apply to all "news media" ( I used the term "news" with reluctance ) media whether print, on line or visual.

That certain large media corporations are apparently censoring what is available for viewing on political grounds only makes me more suspicious that something is rotten in the world of news media.

[Cats4ever]

I agree with Car 720 - the Humble Rupert Organisation is a danger to information and democracy.

[Chomper Higgot]

Those critical of mainstream media are always reluctant to say where they get their news, and if they do offer an explanation it’s always so generic as to be meaningless.

 

[connda]

22 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The level of trust has fallen throughout the pandemic and about 8 million people in Britain are now at risk of being less informed, uninformed or misinformed about the disease just as the government grapples with a second wave, the Institute said in a report.

They are at risk of not being spoon-fed the status-quo narrative which they must unquestioning believe.  Main-stream media reporting on how only the main-stream media are the preservers of "truth" in this day and age of propaganda that would make Goebbels proud. 
"Don't think for yourself.  Don't question.  Don't research. Conform. Obey!"
People are very tired of that message and are tuning out.  It's easy enough to see that those who only rely on corporate main-stream media are the ones who are "less informed, uninformed or misinformed."

[Chomper Higgot]

6 minutes ago, connda said:

They are at risk of not being spoon-fed the status-quo narrative which they must unquestioning believe.  Main-stream media reporting on how only the main-stream media are the preservers of "truth" in this day and age of propaganda that would make Goebbels proud. 
"Don't think for yourself.  Don't question.  Don't research. Conform. Obey!"
People are very tired of that message and are tuning out.  It's easy enough to see that those who only rely on corporate main-stream media are the ones who are "less informed, uninformed or misinformed."

Having told us to go research, where do

you get your information?

 

 

 

Edited October 28, 2020 by Chomper Higgot

[3NUMBAS]

lefty leaning remainers bellyaching ad nauseaum about just about everything esp the BBC the worst of the lot

[Scott]

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[Kinnock]

A study sponsored by a news agency concludes people need to read more news to be 'better informed'. ????

 

No news here, move along.

 

And perhaps people are now better informed because they avoid the fear mongering press and go straight to the same sources used by Reuters etc and make up their own minds.

 

You can subscribe to The Lancet, BMJ etc and read the source material the day it is published, or wait a few days to read a dramatized interpretation by a spotty intern 3 days later.

Edited October 29, 2020 by Kinnock

[connda]

4 hours ago, Kinnock said:

You can subscribe to The Lancet, BMJ etc and read the source material the day it is published

Exactly.  The people who gravitate toward short two minute sound-bites and simplistic MSM articles written at a sixth grade level don't have acumen or the motivation to wade through university level research papers.  I can, and I do.
The rather inane and unmotivated become rapidly indoctrinated by the simplistic, one-sided news from MSM sources geared toward short attention spans.  When confronted with an opposing opinion from the propaganda they are fed though main-stream media channels, they are entrained to simply mouth the words - "Conspiracy Theory" and all discounted and made well again. 
These same people make for excellent cannon-fodder when the wars break out.
We live in interesting times.

[John Drake]

On 10/27/2020 at 6:10 PM, snoop1130 said:

Less than half of Britain's people trust in news organisations as a source for COVID-19 information

 

How many of them are "approved sources" for TVF?  Serious question.

[Rimmer]

A grammar police post has been removed

 

And now a post discussing moderation has been removed. Did you read the rules when you signed up at all?

[Lancelot01]

Says Reuters. Nuff said. 

[Morch]

On 10/28/2020 at 9:26 AM, Pattaya Spotter said:

The news media isn't called "fake news" for nothing...they work hard to earn it every day.

 

They aren't universally called 'fake news'. That's more of a Trump thing.

[evadgib]

7 minutes ago, Morch said:

They aren't universally called 'fake news'. That's more of a Trump thing.

The name has caught on & for good reason. I'm looking forward to the lefties reaction when he is returned again next week.

[Morch]

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

The name has caught on & for good reason. I'm looking forward to the lefties reaction when he is returned again next week.

 

I don't know if you recall, but it originally was used by various media outlets to address the flow of such 'news stories' from dodgy elements, often favoring Trump's campaign. It was only later that Trump 'took over' the term and started using it over and over again - usually without much substantiation or cause.

 

You said it 'caught on' - yes, but not quite in the meaning implied by the poster I replied to (or even yourself). Spin it whichever way you like, this is not a universal term for MSM - but more of a Trump thing.

[evadgib]

2 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

I don't know if you recall, but it originally was used by various media outlets to address the flow of such 'news stories' from dodgy elements, often favoring Trump's campaign. It was only later that Trump 'took over' the term and started using it over and over again - usually without much substantiation or cause.

 

You said it 'caught on' - yes, but not quite in the meaning implied by the poster I replied to (or even yourself). Spin it whichever way you like, this is not a universal term for MSM - but more of a Trump thing.

I had never heard of it until Trump started using it & like everyone else I laughed. I have wrong since realized how wrong I was.

[Morch]

11 minutes ago, evadgib said:

I had never heard of it until Trump started using it & like everyone else I laughed. I have wrong since realized how wrong I was.

 

I daresay your memory betrays you. It was widely discussed on this forum before Trump made it 'his' pet term.

[evadgib]

Just now, Morch said:

I daresay your memory betrays you. It was widely discussed on this forum before Trump made it 'his' pet term.

I'm not ???????? & was somewhat preoccupied with more pressing issues elsewhere.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

I had never heard of it until Trump started using it & like everyone else I laughed. I have wrong since realized how wrong I was.

Not everyone else laughed.

 

Trump’s attacks on the press are far from a laughing matter.

[Ed Ball]

8 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Not everyone else laughed.

 

Trump’s attacks on the press are far from a laughing matter.

Maybe you might listen to Glen Greenwald, then. 

He has just resigned from the media outlet he co-founded because of activism replacing journalism. You can read his resignation letter here.

In it he says

Quote

modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it

Quote

the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are by no means unique to The Intercept. These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom. 

 

[Morch]

3 hours ago, Ed Ball said:

Maybe you might listen to Glen Greenwald, then. 

He has just resigned from the media outlet he co-founded because of activism replacing journalism. You can read his resignation letter here.

In it he says

 

 

That's all very well, but I doubt even Greenwald would be as bold as to claim all (or even most) news and news media venues are 'fake news'. Not every 'fake news' story qualifies as 'dissent' and vice versa.

[evadgib]

18 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Not everyone else laughed.

 

Trump’s attacks on the press are far from a laughing matter.

Of interest to the board from GMB today:

 

[Pattaya Spotter]

The news media (80% Democrat in U.S.) isn't pro-Biden...how could anyone have such a silly idea...you can't make this stuff up!

 

Greenwald resigns from The Intercept citing censorship

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said on Thursday he had resigned from The Intercept after the US investigative media outlet purportedly refused to publish his article critical of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/30/greenwald-resigns-from-the-intercept-over-biden-article

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523402-glenn-greenwald-resigns-from-the-intercept

Edited October 30, 2020 by Pattaya Spotter

[RayC]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

Of interest to the board from GMB today:

 

Good old Nig. Rails against the MSM, but isn't averse to accepting 'sponsorship' from The Daily Telegraph to cover the US election.