Trust in TV News and Current Affairs
Q. How much trust do you have in the news and current affairs on the following TV channels?
A lot of trust | Some trust | Not much trust | Don’t know | |
ABC | 42% | 42% | 9% | 6% |
Channel 7 | 8% | 53% | 33% | 6% |
Channel 9 | 8% | 54% | 31% | 6% |
Channel 10 | 7% | 55% | 31% | 6% |
Sky News | 12% | 40% | 17% | 31% |
42% say they have a lot of trust in the ABC news and current affairs and 42% have some trust. Only 9% have not much trust.
Levels of trust in the free-to-air commercial channels are similar – less than 10% have a lot of trust and over 30% say they have not much trust in them.
Sky News is trusted more than the other commercial channels – 12% say they have a lot of trust and only 17% have not much trust.
Highest levels of trust in the ABC are shown by men (47% a lot of trust), Greens voters (62%) and Labor voters (48%) and those on income over $1,600pw (49%).

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