Editorial selection · Media & Attention
Alliance for Trust/Medill Trust Tracker
Selected by Dylan Ratigan.
Article summary
Rynston-Lobel reports results from an NORC survey of 1,057 adults conducted October 8–12. Sixty-four percent said they trust local news, while large partisan differences remain in whether news is viewed as manipulation rather than information.
The survey also finds broad distrust of AI chatbots, online groups, and individual creators. Local reporting retains a trust advantage, but the data show how party identity shapes the interpretation of the same media system.