Comments on: Our trust in media: ABC still leads as commercial media struggle

By: justsaying

justsaying — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:28:26 +0000

The Project? Bahahahahaha. Its like Today Tonight for student unionists.

By: Person Ordinary

Person Ordinary — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:20:36 +0000

“higher income earners are more likely to say they don’t use ABC services”

Really? Why?

By: johnquiggin1@mac.com

johnquiggin1@mac.com — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:25:11 +0000

It seems odd to restrict the analysis to people who “have read” the publication in question. Makes sense, kinda sorta, for city-specific newspapers, but if people don’t read the Oz, for example, they presumably don’t put a lot of trust in it. And it would be silly to trust the Age, but not the SMH or Brisbane Times, given the overlap in content

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:12:53 +0000

Pity there’s no AFR in this poll. They’ve had the most dramatic change in trustworthiness in the last year.

By: iggy648

iggy648 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:31:46 +0000

If 50% or readers don’t trust the Telegraph, you have to wonder why they keep reading it. Amusement factor?

By: Arty

Arty — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:41:37 +0000

The best single current affairs/news program on the box is Channel 10’s “The Project”.

Stories get pretty-much what they deserve!

By: klewso

klewso — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:55:11 +0000

I’m having trouble understanding how that “total trust” works for “daily newspapers”?
If it’s 48% overall, yet the “Tele-fibbies” is lowest individual paper on that mark of 48, all others are above that?

Unless the lower table is made up from those that actually spend their hard-earned (time &/or money) buying/reading them. One in 3-5 “read” them without believing what they’re reading? That only one in ten, that read it, believe most of the stuff the Wizards of Oz bake in their filling, between front and last pages?
And the upper table is made up of the opinions of “spectators” as well?

By: Pete from Sydney

Pete from Sydney — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0000

Agree…misplaced trust in TV…maybe people trust the fact that they don’t really cover any news?

By: Steve777

Steve777 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:39:20 +0000

Commercial TV have virtually vacated the field of News and Current Affairs, so I am puzzled by the level of trust placed in them. I rarely watch ‘news’ and ‘current affairs’ on commercial TV. The little I see of commercial news seems to be mainly disasters (where pictures are available), road accidents (ditto), ‘human interest’, celebrity trivia, advertorials and cross-promotion. It is so vacuous that it’s hard to ascribe any political position or bias to it. As for commercial ‘current affairs’, nothing but sensationalist tripe aimed at pushing viewers’ hot buttons with a view to delivering them to advertisers. Plus more cross-promotion, of course.