That headline will probably not surprise anyone. Press Gazette polled around 1,000 people and asked them what they thought was the most reliable source of political news across all mediums. The results:
1 – BBC News (online, TV and radio): 50.3 per cent.
2 – Sky News (6.5 per cent)
3 – ITV national news (5.3 per cent)
4 – I trust no-one when it comes to political news (five per cent)
5 – ITV regional news (3.7 per cent)
6 – The Times (3.3 per cent)
7 – Daily Mail (2.5 per cent)
8 – Channel 4 News (2.3 per cent)
9 – The Daily Telegraph (1.9 per cent)
10 – The Guardian (1.8 per cent)
I’ll do a more susbstantial post about this soon hopefully but I found it quite interesting and it raises more questions than answers. Is TV news therefore better than print? Is this proof of the BBC’s stranglehold on the news media in the UK? Is radio useless when it comes to political insight?
More soon…
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