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In article <11b8217d35.1745561312@hjjoc.lo>,
Pierre J.  <pierrej@torontosun.com> wrote:
>OTTAWA — A new poll suggests more than half of Conservative voters don't
>trust what they see or hear about federal party leaders in the media
>during the current election campaign. 
>
>Fifty-six per cent of people who identified as Conservatives in the
>Leger poll said they had little trust — or none at all — in media
>reports about party leaders. 
>
>Just over one-quarter of Liberal voters who responded to the poll, and
>about two in five NDP voters, expressed a lack of trust in the media. 
>
>Leger polled 1,603 adults online from last Thursday through Monday of
>this week. 
>
>Online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not
>randomly sample the population. 
>
>Canadians head to the polls for the general election on April 28.
>
>Overall, 52 per cent of Canadians surveyed by Leger expressed some trust
>or a great deal of trust in media coverage of the leaders during the
>election campaign. 
>
>But 43 per cent said they were skeptical of what they were reading and
>hearing — a figure that troubles Patrick White, a journalism professor
>at the Université du Québec à Montréal. 
>
>"It's quite worrisome and concerning to see that so many Canadians don't
>trust news media coverage during such an important democratic moment,"
>White said. 
>
>"So I'm very concerned for the future."
>
>Seventy-three per cent of Liberal voters surveyed by Leger expressed
>trust in the media, compared to 50 per cent of New Democrats and just 41
>per cent of Conservatives. Fifty-four per cent of Bloc Québécois
>supporters and 55 per cent of Green voters said they trusted media
>coverage. 
>
>White suggested more research is needed to fully understand the "huge
>gap" in trust levels between Liberal and Conservative voters. 
>
>He pointed to the generally stronger support in Liberal circles for
>government financial assistance for media outlets struggling to survive
>with dwindling advertising revenues. 
>
>Some Canadians are looking beyond mainstream outlets to right-leaning
>sources or are shunning the media altogether, White added. 
>
>"There is a huge phenomenon of news avoidance," he said.
>
>The survey found 64 per cent of respondents were somewhat or very
>concerned about the possibility of encountering fake or manipulated
>images, videos or audio clips during the election campaign. 
>
>Only 28 per cent said they had personally witnessed any attempts to
>mislead or misinform voters about a party, a candidate or the voting
>process. 
>
>White said Canadians have been expressing worries about manipulated
>content for the last two or three years, so it's good news that only
>about one-quarter of those surveyed reported actually seeing it in the
>campaign. 
>
>"It seems to me like we still have good safeguards in the news ecosystem
>in Canada," he said. 
>
>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 23, 2025.
>
>Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
>
>https://ca.news.yahoo.com/most-conservative-voters-dont-trust-080013943.h
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