Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: BBC News is the most trusted news source ... in the United States?
We begin today with the chief data reporter of The Financial Times, John-Burn Murdoch, and his highly useful graphic about the trust that UK and U.S. audiences have in the media of their respective countries.
(Forgive that screaming typo in the chart!)
David Herman interprets Mr. Burn-Murdoch’s data for The Article.
The graphic shows that when asked how trustworthy do you rate the news reported by the following media organisations, most Labour and Conservative voters tend to vote the same way. The biggest negative votes were from Labour voters for The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Express, The Telegraph and GB News. The biggest negative votes from Conservative voters were for The Guardian, Private Eye, The Mirror and The New European. No surprises here.
More interesting, though again not surprising, were the news organisations who were trusted almost equally by Conservative and Labour voters: the FT, the BBC, Reuters, the Economist, Sky, Channel 5, Times Radio, LBC, the Metro and The Spectator.
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What is really striking though, is what happens if you compare these British figures with those of Democrat and Republican voters when asked which US news organisations they most trust. Suddenly the gap widens spectacularly, whichever news outlet they are asked about, whether TV news, magazines or newspapers. A few are trusted by Democrats and Republicans alike: Business Insider, the National Review and, astonishingly, the New York Post.
But, by and large, the gap is enormous when it comes to PBS, the BBC, AP, all the US TV news networks, the New York Times and the Washington Post, highbrow weekly magazines like the New Yorker and the Atlantic, and, less surprisingly, MSNBC, Fox News and CNN.
Yes, even with the BBC, the partisan gap remains (in fact the partisan gap has grown a little bit from 2023 YouGov poll results of the same question). The BBC also possesses a much higher share of the UK audience, according to this tweet, than any of the American media organizations do in US.
On the whole, though, I would not say that American conservatives are, overall, not exactly antagonistic to the BBC. Which … doesn’t surprise me.