This study examined public trust in the media through focus groups with young, educated urbanites in Rwanda. Despite the fact media in Rwanda incited violence during the 1994 genocide, results revealed that the Rwandan public highly trust their local news, especially state-run media. The findings suggest frameworks for studying media trust should consider the public’s trust in government, as the two might be linked, and also suggest scholars think deeply about conceptualizations of trust in different socio-political contexts, as trust is part of the culture of a polity, not simply a citizen’s judgment on how well news media are doing.

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卢旺达国营新闻媒体的公众信任

这项研究通过与卢旺达受过教育的年轻城市居民的焦点小组调查了公众对媒体的信任。尽管卢旺达的媒体在1994年的种族灭绝中煽动了暴力，但结果显示卢旺达公众高度信任他们的当地新闻，尤其是国营媒体。研究结果表明，研究媒体信任的框架应考虑公众对政府的信任，因为两者可能是相互联系的，并且还建议学者深入思考不同社会政治背景下的信任概念，因为信任是一种政体文化的一部分，而不仅仅是市民对新闻媒体表现如何的判断。