MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — A poll conducted by ICM Research exclusively for Sputnik revealed Tuesday that a total of 60 percent of European and US citizens surveyed would be interested in receiving information on global events from alternative news outlets.
By contrast, 43 percent of US citizens polled are not quite interested, not interested at all or don't know if they want access to alternative media coverage.
"Forty percent total and 43 percent in the United States don't want access to sources of news they're lacking? What in the world is the matter with these people? People ought to have learned by now that the way to get news about a government is to get the news produced about it in foreign countries, no matter which country we're talking about," Swanson said.
ICM Research polled over 5,000 people in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece and the United States between March 20 and April 9, 2015.
As Russia's relations with the West deteriorated amid Ukraine conflict, many US and European media outlets adopted a one-sided approach to covering events in Ukraine.
An earlier ICM poll, published in April, revealed that some 54 percent of respondents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Greece did not trust mainstream media when it came to the coverage of the Ukrainian crisis.
