Greek media perceived as most inaccurate worldwide - survey

Greeks are the most sceptical in the world towards their country’s media, a Pew Research Centre study found while Nigeria is 5th on the list.

In Pew’s public opinion survey, only 18% of Greeks answered that they believe that their national media are doing a good or somewhat good job of reporting on political issues. This is the lowest percentage among the 38 countries surveyed. The corresponding figure for the U.S. is 47%, Australia is at 48%, Canada is at 73%, and Turkey is at 57%.

The survey also found that only 25% of Greeks trust their media to accurately report news regarding politicians and public officials.

Overall, a median of 75%t of respondents across the 38 countries included in the poll stated that it is never acceptable for a news organisation to favour one political party over others when reporting the news. Only 20% said this is sometimes acceptable.

Respondents from Europe were those who were the most opposed to political bias in their news, including 89% of those polled in Spain and 88% of those surveyed in Greece who considered this practice unacceptable, as compared to 78% of respondents in the United States. In only five countries do at least 30% of respondents believe it is acceptable for the media to favour one political party.

Share of people who say their news media are doing very/somewhat well at reporting news accurately(2018)

Country	Political issues fairly	News about govt. leaders and officials	News accurately	Most important news events
Tanzania	83,00%	89,00%	93,00%	92,00%
Philippines	78,00%	83,00%	86,00%	87,00%
Indonesia	77,00%	85,00%	85,00%	89,00%
Netherlands	74,00%	82,00%	82,00%	89,00%
India	65,00%	72,00%	80,00%	72,00%
Kenya	70,00%	75,00%	80,00%	82,00%
Vietnam	78,00%	78,00%	80,00%	85,00%
Canada	73,00%	79,00%	78,00%	82,00%
Sweden	66,00%	78,00%	78,00%	86,00%
Ghana	68,00%	70,00%	77,00%	81,00%
Germany	72,00%	77,00%	75,00%	85,00%
South Africa	65,00%	69,00%	73,00%	76,00%
Senegal	75,00%	75,00%	72,00%	84,00%
Nigeria	67,00%	68,00%	71,00%	74,00%
Japan	55,00%	55,00%	65,00%	74,00%
Turkey	57,00%	73,00%	65,00%	74,00%
Israel	42,00%	50,00%	63,00%	78,00%
UK	52,00%	64,00%	63,00%	74,00%
France	47,00%	54,00%	62,00%	73,00%
Mexico	58,00%	55,00%	62,00%	68,00%
Russia	55,00%	68,00%	60,00%	79,00%
Venezuela	52,00%	50,00%	58,00%	62,00%
Australia	48,00%	60,00%	57,00%	65,00%
Brazil	45,00%	54,00%	57,00%	66,00%
Tunisia	48,00%	52,00%	56,00%	58,00%
U.S.	47,00%	58,00%	56,00%	61,00%
Jordan	46,00%	47,00%	55,00%	60,00%
Hungary	42,00%	49,00%	54,00%	63,00%
Peru	42,00%	42,00%	51,00%	59,00%
Lebanon	36,00%	62,00%	48,00%	73,00%
Spain	33,00%	48,00%	48,00%	63,00%
Argentina	37,00%	38,00%	45,00%	56,00%
Italy	36,00%	46,00%	45,00%	60,00%
Poland	40,00%	43,00%	43,00%	59,00%
Chile	36,00%	36,00%	42,00%	55,00%
Colombia	38,00%	43,00%	41,00%	57,00%
South Korea	27,00%	26,00%	36,00%	44,00%
Greece	18,00%	25,00%	22,00%	42,00%