From Roy Greenslade’s blog:
According to a survey conducted by YouGov for Prospect Magazine, there has been a noticeable slide in public trust of journalists since 2003.
Really? Gosh, I wonder why…
The serious trio – The Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian – saw their joint trust rating slip by 24% to just over 40%.
As for the middle-market pair – Daily Mail and Daily Express – they are down from around 35% to 21% (can you believe that he Express has even 21% of the people trusting its content?) Anyway, let’s move on.
The red-tops – The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Star – can point to a shallow fall in trust of only 4%. Then again, they started at just 14% in 2003 to record the latest 10%.
These results certainly seem to undermine Paul Dacre’s recent comment that “Britain’s newspapers are infinitely better behaved than they were two decades ago“.
Can you really blame people for losing trust in journalists when they constantly engage in churnalism and deliberately mislead their readers, time and time again?
I certainly can’t.
