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Statista reports only 20% of people in the US don't trust the MSM. These are rookie numbers, we can do better. (www.statista.com)

posted 4 months ago by ApparentlyImAHeretic 4 months ago by ApparentlyImAHeretic +90 / -0

Infographic: How Widespread Is Distrust of Mainstream Media?

This chart shows the share of respondents who do not trust the mainstream media in their country of residence (in %).

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– Hugs 19 points 4 months ago +19 / -0

The "article" (more like paragraph) doesn't say what options respondents had to choose from, and the link to the survey requires you to pay to see the survey structure. These results are pretty useless without that context.

I'd guess that the question does not boil down to "Do you trust MSM? Yes/No," but instead presents multiple options like "I somewhat distrust the MSM" and "I completely distrust the MSM" and they decided to report only the latter.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic [S] 6 points 4 months ago +6 / -0

indeed.

it's also possible that they mucked the survey up with leading questions. example:

do you agree that it is important for people to be informed?

do you see value in investigative journalism and uncovering truth?

do you understand how hard journalists work to report the truth?

do you trust the news media?

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