Q. How much trust do you have in what you read or hear in the following media?
A lot | Some | Not much | None | Don’t know/use | |
ABC TV news and current affairs | 25% | 45% | 14% | 3% | 13% |
ABC radio news and current affairs | 20% | 42% | 15% | 4% | 19% |
Commercial TV news and current affairs | 9% | 55% | 26% | 5% | 5% |
News and opinion in daily newspapers | 9% | 53% | 26% | 4% | 7% |
Commercial radio news and current affairs | 7% | 47% | 29% | 6% | 10% |
ABC radio talkback programs | 6% | 39% | 24% | 5% | 25% |
News and opinion websites | 5% | 44% | 31% | 6% | 15% |
Commercial radio talkback programs | 3% | 35% | 32% | 11% | 19% |
Internet blogs | 2% | 18% | 40% | 15% | 25% |
ABC TV and radio news and current affairs were the most trusted media (25% and 20% respectively have a lot of trust).
Commercial TV news and current affairs programs have the highest consumption, but only 9% say they have a lot of trust in them.
And although consumption of newspapers and internet news sites is very similar, newspapers are considered more trustworthy (62% compared to 49% have a lot/some trust in them).