This is a column about 42 percent of Republicans.
It is also a column about trust.
A few days ago in Miami, the Knight Foundation, a philanthropic institution, convened a conference of journalists, tech persons, business persons and others to consider the state and future of journalism. Central to the gathering was a study conducted by Gallup and Knight measuring American attitudes toward news media.
As medicine, it was castor oil.
Among its findings: More Americans (43 percent) have a negat
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