London, Nov 14 (ANI): Only 38 percent of people in Britain believe what they read in newspapers as the phone-hacking scandal that recently struck the Sunday tabloid News of the World has 'corroded' trust in the media, a study has claimed.
According to the study, the controversy has had a dramatic impact on confidence in the British press with 58 percent of people claiming their faith in papers has been reduced since the first allegations emerged.
Around 51 percent of those polled said the furore had dented their trust in the media as a whole.
According to the Mirror.co.uk, the findings come as the media industry is brought under the spotlight at the start of Lord Justice Leveson's public inquiry into journalistic ethics.
The study revealed that the most trusted media outlets are television, deemed reliable by 64 percent of respondents, and radio, favoured by 58 percent people.
Nearly one in five, 17 percent, of British adults claim they will refer to newspapers less frequently next year than they do now, the survey revealed.
The study that covered 1,108 British and 1,095 US adults, compiled by YouGov, revealed three in four people, 74 percent, feel outlets sometimes, or frequently, lie to their audiences.
Fifty-five-percent believed content in the UK had been 'dumbed down' in recent years.
The study also showed that Britons take a cynical view of the American media.
Twenty-one-percent of adults said they never trust US journalism, regardless of the type of story being covered.
Americans, however, appeared more convinced by the British media, with only seven percent saying they never believe the information disseminated. (ANI)
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