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President Trump at a gathering with army and nationwide safety officers on the White Home on Saturday.
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It’s all a part of an ever-deepening partisan divide over the very nature of fact and what sources of knowledge could be trusted, notably with regard to the information. Even because the virus has touched nearly each facet of American life and triggered each Democrats and Republicans to change their each day routines, the pandemic has didn’t bridge the hole over belief within the information media.
While close to three-quarters of Democrats said in the Pew poll that the media’s virus coverage was getting them the information they needed, only 44 percent of Republicans said so. Two-thirds of Republicans said in the survey that the news media’s coverage of the pandemic had been “more negative than it should be.”
That partisan divide is contributing to a decline in the country’s overall faith in journalism. Fifty-two percent of respondents said that they generally had little to no confidence that journalists would operate in the public’s best interests. Two years ago, 55 percent of Americans told Pew that they had at least a decent amount of confidence.
The November presidential election may not only be the first to occur during a pandemic; it could also be the first to occur in an era of such great partisan divide over what to believe.
Attend a virtual Times event on the Wild West of virus testing and the scramble to reopen.
Tuesday, May 12 at 4 p.m. Eastern
In the face of enormous pressure to reopen, many states are struggling to implement adequate testing and contact tracing programs — measures that public health experts say are necessary to prevent the coronavirus from spreading rapidly and claiming more lives. Why is this so hard? And what can states do today — even without the testing they need?
Our special guest, Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former director of the C.D.C. and the chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, will discuss these questions with our host, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a Washington correspondent for The Times.
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