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Trusted sources for news on politics and government in the United States 2014

Which of the sources you have heard of do you generally trust for news about government and politics?

The data shows a ranking of trusted sources for news on politics and government in the U.S. as of April 2014. The source found that 57% of consumers who had heard of CNN, trusted it as a news source, whereas the lowest ranking source for political news was BuzzFeed with a 7% share.

CNN	57
NPR	55
ABC News	53
NBC News	53
CBS News	49
BBC	47
Fox News Cable Channel	47
PBS	43
MSNBC	43
New York Times	40
Wall Street Journal	38
USA Today	37
The Economist	36
Google News	35
Washington Post	34
The Blaze	34
Breitbart	28
Sean Hannity Show	27
Huffington Post	27
Mother Jones	26
Daily Show	26
Colbert Report	25
ThinkProgress.org	24
Yahoo News	24
The New Yorker	22
Drudge Report	22
Glenn Beck Program	21
Politico	21
Al Jazeera America	21
The Guardian	20
Rush Limbaugh Show	19
Ed Schultz Show	19
Bloomberg	18
Slate	17
Daily Kos	16
BuzzFeed	7

Trusted sources for news on politics and government in the United States 2014

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