Media Bias

The Washington Examiner reports the findings of an international study of news outlets done by Reuters and Oxford University. Some of the findings are quite interesting.

Of 29 free nations surveyed in the Digital News Report 2021, U.S. “trust” in the media ranked 46th of 46.

Cable news channels Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have some of the highest levels of distrust.

Also reported via a chart, people whose politics lean right, who are conservative, report the press covering the news unfairly in the following countries: the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Japan, and Spain. Only in the U.K. do conservatives (Tories) see the press as not bad. Oddly, liberals agree the press is unfair in all of the above nations except the U.S. and Germany. 

The survey found that now that Trump is out of office, conservatives in the U.S. show little interest in the news. Gosh, I wonder why? he asked ironically.