The full set of "Media Use and Evaluation" questions is quite interesting: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1663/Media-Use-Evaluation.aspx https://news.gallup.com/p

The full set of "Media Use and Evaluation" questions is quite interesting: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1663/Media-Use-Evaluation.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1663/Media-Use-Evaluation.aspx E.g. in response to the question "Now, apart from how FREQUENTLY you use them as sources of news, we'd like to know whether or not you can trust the accuracy of the news and information you get from each of the following news sources. First, do you feel you can trust the accuracy of the news and information you get from ... ?" the source that the most people (74%) said they can trust in 2019 (the last time the question was asked) was local television news. Other local news sources also got rated more trustworthy than national ones. I wonder how much of that is due to culture fit (reporting news in a way that matches the expectations of the people in the area) vs ease of verification (if something happened in your neighborhood, it's easier to find out whether the news is accurate than if it's about a faraway place you've never been to).