Guess who Americans trust more on COVID-19 – Trump or the national press?

[Andy Meek]

• A new CBS News poll reveals that, in terms of sources of coronavirus news that Americans trust, President Trump actually fares slightly better than the national media.
• The poll, however, shows that trust in many institutions and key figures, including both Trump and the media, has fallen as the coronavirus pandemic has dragged on.
• Trust in the CDC has fallen especially far, according to the CBS poll.

There's been an unfortunate trend that's unfolded over the past several months, in terms of where Americans get their coronavirus news -- and, more specifically, what sources of information they trust the most.

A new poll commissioned by CBS News and conducted last week found that Americans' trust in a number of key institutions has diminished as the coronavirus pandemic has dragged on. Everything from the pronouncements of President Trump to advisories from the CDC, the national media in general, as well as state governors (from whence have come the stay-at-home orders and business closures that have made the pandemic so painful) -- the polls' results show that Americans' trust in all of those things has fallen since March. But at least two quite interesting things stand out, upon a cursory examination of some of those findings from the CBS News poll.

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