Public perception of and attentiveness to news typically depends on what's happening in the U.S. and why. Right now, trust in American media appears to be at a historic low.Recent polling from Gallup shows only 34% of Americans seem to trust the news.

Omaha

Why Americans don't trust the news

As a part of national news literacy week will explore how the Public's perception of, and attentiveness to news. Depends on what's happening in our country and why right now. Trust in American, Media appears to be at a historic low. The numbers are shamefully all recent polling from Gallup shows, only 34% of Americans. Seem to trust the news, just 7% of those Americans have a great deal of trust and confidence. The media while 27% would say they trust news, a fair amount 28% of us adults. Say they do not have much confidence in newspapers TV and radio 38% have no confidence at all. These numbers can be worse depending on the survey or pole but they all underscore one thing Americans say, they don't trust news media right now, the public has been ambivalent about the media for very long time. Show disenchantment that is showing up in polls. Now is not Anything new that said Wasserman a professor at and former dean of The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and spoke with scripts news about why Americans have such low trust in the media. And according to him, a lot of it can be traced back to political attacks against media coverage. Going back decades. Let's take the Vietnam War as an example. What is your favorite issue do among the conservative politician is going back to the late 1960s. And at that time, it was an immediate were thought to be insufficiently patriotic with respect to the war in Vietnam and devices and perhaps unduly supported in the cultural movements and of cultural disaffection. And for those reasons, it worked then came the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s while that exposed the need for the media as a check on government power. There was still a lot of public cynicism especially among conservatives. Since then the media, the identity of the media is being a kind of intractable liberal or Progressive. Force has taken root and didn't use it. Effectively by politicians are going to write the irony is that for many, many years before then, the media has been seen as very conservative newspapers for Cena's real implacable opponents. Roosevelt. So it's funny the way that is turned around and historically by today, covering politics is more prominent than ever research. Shows that when it comes to getting news about politics and government, liberals and conservatives live in very different worlds, with very little, if any overlap in their primary news sources and that can significantly impact their views in a stark, example of this, an experiment that involved making regular Fox News, Watchers watch CNN instead. Four months, founded moderated, a lot of the viewers, more extreme views, the study concluded, the quote partisan media viewers, attitudes appear, more malleable than some suggest and that a person consumption use the same polarization in Africa than I do in the United States to journalism. School finds that partisan media attacks can make reporting, incredibly difficult especially in more polarized areas like Middle America. Those reporting difficulties can exacerbate divides and mistrust already compounded by other factors like a rapid decline in local news or digital media has problem of misinformation. I think that media literacy is also something that has been lacking in our education and so that also has an impact because consumers aren't really equipped to tell the difference between what's journalism that Is living up to journalism standards of factbase accuracy that other organizations aren't aren't upholding how can news audiences know, which organizations to trust the information. How forthright are they? And if the source of the information, they've been clearly identified and you find those sources of information to be creditable, unbelievable? That? That reporter tends to deserve your attention, attention. I in the way in which their opposing, their news agenda, or are they actually directing my attention to things that I ought to be worried about an oddity thinking about an hour to be acting all considering. And sources and consuming diverse. Incredible media is all important, 4 News audiences but improving diversity within news organization is equally important. Something. Some news outlets are at least trying to work on Deborah's. Newsrooms help cover communities of color accurately, and respectfully, leading to improved trust. And I can get that actually has helped build some trust in communities that are traditionally didn't trust the media because of the way, they were constantly portrayed and I think that's been an important advance. I hope that it contributes to expanding trust among among people in the United States, especially

The specialized police unit that included the five Memphis officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was disbanded on Saturday, as more protests took place in U.S. cities a day after harrowing video of the attack was released. It followed a call from President Joe Biden to the Nichols family, offering his support.

Memphis

Memphis disbands elite unit linked to fatal beating

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired the Conservative Party chairman. It comes after an investigation into Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs found he seriously breached ministerial rules when he was chancellor. Questions remain over whether Sunak should have known earlier about Zahawi’s tax dispute.

Downing Street

Top Conservative fired over tax scandal

Former U.S. President Donald Trump had his first formal 2024 election campaign trail events on Saturday with stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina. They were noticeably low-key affairs, in contrast to the loud and lively rallies with thousands of supporters that he often holds.

Columbia

'Bring back world peace': Trump launches campaign

A protester has been killed in Peru during confrontations between demonstrators and police. That takes number of those who have died during the unrest to 58, since former President Pedro Castillo was impeached and imprisoned early last month. Roads in the south have been blocked by protesters after mainly indigenous leaders called a national strike. Food and fuel are running out in the region.

Puno

Protester killed in remote Peru clashes

Serbian superstar defeated Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas for his 10th trophy in Melbourne, equalling Rafael Nadal's 22 Grand Slam titles.

Melbourne

Djokovic wins Australian Open title

One of the world's most expensive cities to live in - Hong Kong - is facing the highest rate of homelessness in a decade. Rising inflation has sent the cost of everything from food to rent soaring, compounding the problem. Experts and social workers blamed the pandemic partly for the sharp increase in street sleepers over the past two years, as people lost their jobs and income.

Tsim Sha Tsui

Hong Kong has a homeless problem

Ten civilians were killed in Ukraine, including three in Konstantynivka, as Russian artillery targeted homes. Ukraine's army says it has been exacting a heavy toll against Russian soldiers on the battlefield.

Kharkiv

Ukraine says Russia taking 'heavy losses'

Chanting 'no justice, no peace', protesters marched through Memphis following the release of Police footage showing the arrest of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after five police officers beat him during a traffic stop earlier this month.

Protests break out after Police footage released

The first tennis grand slam of the year has been won by a Belarusian player, Aryna Sabalenka. But because of the invasion of Ukraine, she was not technically allowed to represent her country.

'Neutral' Sabalenka wins Australian Open 

Two people have been injured in a suspected shooting by a Palestinian gunman around Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday morning, in what a police spokesperson has described as a "terrorist attack." In response, Israel's military said it was boosting its forces in the occupied West Bank.

Jerusalem

Israel army deployed amid West Bank violence

After two years of being held online, the revered Sundance Film Festival has returned to showcase the best of independent cinema. A drama about a struggling single mother has taken the Grand Jury Prize.

Park City

COVID Latest

Sundance Film Festival returns after two years away

Protesters in Peru have isolated its southeastern city of Puerto Maldonado after three weeks of road blockades. They are demanding constitutional reform. Some vandalised the regional governor's house on Friday. 

Lima

Politicians targeted by Peru protesters

Ukraine has invited the IOC chief, Thomas Bach, to visit his country's frontline after the body indicated it does not want to bar athletes from the Paris 2024 games based on their nationality.

Kyiv

Ukraine Invasion

Russian Sanctions

Zelenskyy slams IOC decision on Russia

A Palestinian boy, aged 13, shot and injured an Israeli man and his adult son in East Jerusalem. The boy was shot and disarmed by bystanders and taken to hospital in handcuffs.

Palestinian boy shoots two in Jerusalem

The city of Memphis has released harrowing video of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man and the five police officers charged with his murder. The video shows what begins as a traffic stop turning into a manhunt, ending in a violent arrest that led to Nichols' death and the subsequent arrest of the officers involved.

Memphis murder arrest video released

Over a few hours under grey skies, dozens of combat planes and helicopters roar on and off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz. The demonstration of U.S. military power in the hotly contested South China Sea has riled Beijing.

Riau Islands

U.S carrier group enters South China Sea

A San Francisco judge ordered the release of body camera footage showing the moment officers intervened when an alleged assailant attacked the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The footage was released alongside a surveillance video showing the alleged attacker smashing through a glass window to get into the couple's San Francisco home.

San Francisco

Footage shows attack on Pelosi's husband

A Palestinian gunman killed at least seven people and wounded three others after opening fire outside an East Jerusalem synagogue, according to Israeli authorities. Police said the shooter didn't have an organizational affiliation.

Palestinian gunman opens fire outside synagogue

The International Olympic Community has announced that Russian and Belarussian athletes could be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics under a 'neutral' banner, rather than a Russian or Belarussian flag.

Paris

'No anthem, no flag' for Russian Olympians

After nearly a year of war, prisoners have accumulated on both sides of the border and detention centres in Ukraine are filling with Russian soldiers. Now a TV crew has been given rare access to one of these camps in an undisclosed location, where detainees wait in hope of a prisoner swap to return to their homeland.

Rare access to Russian POW camp

U.S. prosecutors have charged three men with attempting to assassinate a prominent critic of Iran's government who was previously the target of a failed Tehran-backed kidnapping plot, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday.

Washington

Three charged over Iran-backed assassination plot

Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan said on Friday he would not attend his son's Australian Open semi-final and would instead "watch from home", after a video emerged showing him posing at Melbourne Park with fans holding Russian flags.

Djokovic's dad to skip Australian Open finals

The Paris Mayor says she would not 'stand in the way' of Russian and Belarusian athletes competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, prompting threats of a boycott by Ukraine. The warning came after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would 'explore a pathway' for athletes from the two countries to participate as neutrals.

Saint-Denis

Ukraine threatens to boycott Olympics

The announcement comes one day after the United States and Germany both announced they are sending battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month.

Canada, France pledge more tanks to Ukraine

Rockets were fired by Gaza militants overnight as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.

Rockets fired at Israel after deadly West Bank raid

Peru's President Dina Bolurate is facing growing pressure over her handling of anti-government protests. Trouble began in December when her predecessor was forced from office and imprisoned after trying to dissolve Congress. Protesters want Boluarte to step down.

As deadly protests continue, Peru’s government faces crisis

A World Health Organization committee is meeting on Friday to decide if the COVID-19 pandemic is still a global emergency. Several leading scientists say it may be too early for WHO to declare the end of the pandemic emergency phase. The United Kingdom started easing restrictions in 2021 but is still working to live with the virus. 

Geneva

WHO considers if COVID still an emergency

U.S. President Joe Biden hit out at what he called “MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives” on Thursday for threatening to destroy the economic progress his administration had made and refusing to lift the country’s debt ceiling. Biden called the GOP threat ‘mind-boggling’, during a speech in Virginia.

Richmond

Biden hits out at 'dangerous' Republicans

Five recently-fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died in hospital three days after a confrontation with officers at a traffic stop. Video of the alleged beating that ensued is due to be released later this week. The five officers have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping.

Memphis Police officers charged with murder

Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. The Israeli military says its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning major attacks.