{"id":980,"date":"2006-05-03T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=980"},"modified":"2006-05-03T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T20:23:00","slug":"americans-trust-the-government-more-than-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/americans-trust-the-government-more-than-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans trust the government more than media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/laun.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/laun.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4965550.stm\">BBC<\/A> poll says that Americans trust the American government, more than the media that covers it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On average 61% said they trusted the media, compared to 52% who believed their government&#8217;s explanations.<br \/>\nThe poll also highlights growing use of internet news sources, including blogs, especially among young people.<br \/>\nResults varied across the range of countries surveyed. Trust in journalists was highest in Nigeria (88%, with 34% trusting the government), Indonesia (86% v 71%), India (82% v 66%) and Egypt (74%; government question not asked).<br \/>\nOnly in three countries did governments score higher than the media. In the US, 67% said they trusted the government compared with 59% prepared to put their trust in the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new BBC poll says that Americans trust the American government, more than the media that covers it. On average 61% said they trusted the media, compared to 52% who believed their government&#8217;s explanations. The poll also highlights growing use of internet news sources, including blogs, especially among young people. Results varied across the range &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/americans-trust-the-government-more-than-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans trust the government more than media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}