The poll suggests some people have become cynical about TV
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More than half the population trusts TV producers less than it did a year ago, a poll commissioned by the Edinburgh TV Festival suggests.
Recent phone-in scandals and faked TV competitions have knocked public confidence, with 79% saying they would not enter a TV phone contest again.
Nearly half of the 2,216 people surveyed - 48% - said they did not trust television very much at all.
The YouGov poll was conducted online in early August.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents - 72% - believe TV phone-in competitions are difficult to trust because there is no way of telling whether or not people have a fair chance of winning.
The survey said 59% believe documentaries generally told the truth "but with some distortions at the editing stage".
But reality TV fared worse - 60% of those surveyed said the shows were "generally misleading as a result of severe and dishonest editing".
The survey comes ahead of a media debate at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival, called Trust Me... I'm In Telly, to be held on Friday.
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