Reporters hit high on trust scale
Journalists are among the most trusting people in British society, a government survey has found.
A poll by the National Credulity Office placed journalists in third place, behind financiers and executives, on a scale measuring density of belief in official announcements.
“The high rates of trust by journalists are anomalous in some ways,” said Murdoch McMunchausen, the NCO’s chief pollster.
“We’d expected a large degree of faith from the business and finance communities because they expect to get what they pay for, but reporters are often thought of as being sort of cynical.”
Besides announcements by government officials and spokesbots, journalists also tend to trust money, alcohol and recreational drugs, the survey found. “It’s a wonderful profession,” Mr Munchausen said, “but our study suggests it’s full of lying, cheating narcissists and addicts.”
News editors and high-ranking military personnel tied for fourth place, while nurses, teachers and the unemployed were ranked near the bottom.
