Reuters Institute: Most Hungarians do not trust the news
Hungary has the lowest trust in the news in the region: only 30% of Hungarians trust the news, says a recent Reuters Institute survey.
According to ATV, the Reuters Institute of Oxford University has been researching the trust in media products for 10 years now. Their Digital News Report examined media trends based on a survey of 92,000 residents in 46 countries, says Telex. As in previous studies, CEU’s Institute for Democracy was the Hungarian partner for the research.
Éva Bognár, a researcher at the CEU Institute, told ATV that among the countries where the public’s confidence in the news was measured,
Hungary finished in last place in the region, with 30%.
Telex writes that nearly half of the total sample (44%) claimed to trust the news “most of the time”. In the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, trust is typically higher. Finland is leading the list with 65%. Confidence in the news remains the lowest in the United States (29%).
The coronavirus increased both people’s demand for reliable news and confidence in the news in most countries. While the international average rise was 6%, in Hungary, it was a modest 3%. During the last 10 years, Hungary’s percentage has slowly decreased. According to Bognár, it would be especially important for people to trust the news in a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. The survey showed that people turned to traditional news sources and, in general, trust in the public service media was rising.
Hungarians’ trust in the public service media, however, is very low.
The report also suggests that the pro-government press in Hungary received significant funding through government advertising spending, while the market’s advertising spending fell by 38% compared to last year.
According to the Reuters Institute, due to the restrictions, the situation of the print media became particularly difficult, and more and more press products turned to digital subscriptions. The majority of Hungarians read the news on their mobile phones, and paid content is becoming more and more popular: now 14% of Hungarians pay for online newspapers.
Generation Z hardly consumes news from traditional sources, but the role of TikTok has increased, claims Telex. On the ‘old-fashioned’ social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, journalists and traditional media sources tend to dominate the news, though most participants of the research have identified Facebook as the number one source of fake news.
Bognár says people have a relatively good opinion of the online portals: 24.hu and Hvg top the list of Hungarian press products. Interestingly, Telex finished fourth despite being a relatively new player in the media market. The most important event in the Hungarian media scene, according to Bognár, was the change of ownership and editorial staff of Index. As a result of last year’s events, the reliability of Index in the eyes of readers has fallen by 7%.
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Source: ATV, Telex
Wonder why we don’t trust the media? The answer is most of the media have an agenda that leans towards globalism, the New World Order and pro immigration and open borders. It seems to hate people who are proud to be Hungarians, Most media definiteley have a leftist agenda. Plus let us not forget how much they keep trying to push the LBQTG agenda on our children and trying to force us to accept immoral sexual practices. It most definetely does not value traditional families and Christianity.
Dear Mr Not,
Do you read or speak Hungarian? Given your comment I suspect not. The picture you paint is certainly the one that haunted Mr OV so he set about with his Olig buddies to take over Hungarian media. The garbage that Hungarian State Media distributes as news is certainly bet not trusted.
Mario, Give it a rest, NotNotMaria is obviously Mario. No one listens to Mario so now he has gone to attacking those whom are not in the boat with him.
Hungary is infiltrated with NGOs.
Of course we all know who they are and who is financing them.
The New World Order is unstoppable ;it is here to stay ,like it or not .Of course the reactionary and the intolerant will be swept away along with the hypocrites false Christians .And please stop being paranoiac ,nobody gives a hoot about Hungary or its mean-looking OV; sooner or later the country will realise there is no other way but join the New World Order , nobody likes to live like a pariah,no friends anywhere ! I think Hungary’s interest is to be part of the international community ,and it has the right at the same time to control very tightly the immigration !