News Sources With Highest Levels of Distrust Outside Their Core Audience % who trust and distrust each source Did not get news in past week from source
For example, among those who have heard of CNN but did not get news there, expressions of trust and distrust are roughly equal – 37% trust and 33% distrust. (Fully 80% of those who heard of it and consumed it say they trust it.) PBS, however (trusted by 84% of those who got news there in the past week), was roughly twice as trusted as distrusted outside its core audience (34% v. 16%).
Higher levels of distrust were common among non-consumers of news sources that attract more ideologically aligned audiences. Al Jazeera America, with its 71% left-leaning audience, has considerably more distrust than trust among those who have heard of it but did not get political news there in the past week: 40% to 14%. For The Glenn Beck Program (87% of its audience is right-leaning), the gap is even greater: 55% of those who know it but don’t get news there distrust it, while just 12% trust it.
News Sources With Highest Levels of Distrust Outside Their Core Audience  | % who trust and distrust each source  | Did not get news in past week from source  | Got news in past week from source  | Distrust Trust  | Distrust Trust  | Rush Limbaugh  | 10  | Rush Limbaugh  | 78  | 56  | 84 86  | Fox News  | 5  | 22  | Fox News  | 10  | Glenn Beck  | Glenn Beck  | 55  | 12  | Sean Hannity  | Sean Hannity  | 77 82  | 55  | 14  | Al Jazeera America  | Al Jazeera America  | 40  | 14  | American Trends Panel (wave 1). Survey conducted Merch 19-April 29. 2014 Q21A Q21B, 022. Besed on web respondents For sample  | sizes for each source see main report topline Only sources distrusted by at east 1 in 3 non-cons umers shown.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 