Phone hacking: 58% of UK public say they have lost trust in papers

More than half of the British public say the phone-hacking scandal has damaged their trust in UK newspapers. In the YouGov survey, 58% of adults said the affair has had a negative effect on their perceptions of the British press. Of those interviewed, 51% said it had also made them less likely to trust all domestic news organizations. One in four Americans said their trust in UK media outlets had been eroded by the hacking revelations, which have been widely covered in the US. The PBS report also found that TV and radio are by far the most trusted news outlets in the UK, with 64% and 58% respectively saying they are confident in the veracity of the news carried by the two media. Newspapers lag far behind on 38%, with magazines trusted by just one in four UK readers.