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  <body-formatted>The research, which asked 1,000 people&#160;the percentage of information they believed to be accurate from various sources, gave television the highest score.
&lt;p&gt;TV scored 66%, as well as coming top when people were asked to say with which organisations they felt the closest affinity. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly, radio (55%) came below national newspapers (63%) in the survey, but above websites, which scored only 36%. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The survey also indicated that people trust just 24% of the information they receive from blogs, making them the least trusted medium.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results aren't really surprising, although researchers won&#8217;t be able to separate different media in this way for much longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/05/03/blogs-yet-to-come-of-age-survey/"&gt;separate survey commissioned by Reuters&lt;/a&gt; backs up these findings, which we expect will change dramatically over the next decade.&lt;/p&gt;</body-formatted>
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    &lt;strong&gt;The British public still consider traditional media brands to be far more trustworthy than blogs, according to a survey commissioned by &lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;interactive marketing company Telecom Express&lt;/strong&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;Emphasis&gt;interactive marketing company Telecom Express&lt;/Emphasis&gt;
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    &lt;Emphasis&gt;.&lt;/Emphasis&gt;
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