80% of people got news from TV or radio in 2023 – CSO
New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that 79.8% of people said they got information on news and current affairs from TV or radio on a typical day in 2023.
This was followed by newspapers/magazines, both in print and online at 77.7%, and social media at 71.2%.
The CSO figures form part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Trust Survey with Ireland one of 30 countries that participated in the survey.
The Trust Survey captures people’s self-reported interpersonal trust, and trust in different institutions and levels of government across OECD countries.
The CSO said this was the second time the Trust Survey has been conducted here, with the first taking place in 2021.
As part of the latest survey, respondents were asked questions about where they get information from on current affairs and politics, and their views on national statistics. More than 1,900 people took part in the survey here.
Today’s figures show that 90.1% of people said the organisation or journalist who published the story was one of the top three factors that mattered the most when deciding whether the news was trustworthy. This was followed by sources cited in the story at 75.1%.
Agreeing with the point of view of the story or how many likes, comments, or shares the story had on social media were the two least selected factors (6.9% and 2.4% respectively) when deciding whether the news was trustworthy, the CSO said.
Meanwhile, 73.1% of respondents felt that statistics provided by government institutions were trustworthy and almost half of respondents felt these statistics were easy to find 48.2%.
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