What the public thinks of journalism

For decades, we’ve known that Americans don’t trust the press. What we haven’t known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making. This new national poll for CJR answers those questions, and points to how big the trust gap remains.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/how-does-journalism-happen-poll.php/

GOP unloads border angst on Pence

Senate Republicans expressed deep skepticism with Trump’s emergency declaration at a closed-door meeting with the vice president.

As many as 10 Senate Republicans could support a resolution of disapproval if a vote were held today, according to four GOP senators who attended the lunch and heard Republican senators' complaints. That’s far more than the four needed to pass the legislation on a simple majority and force Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency. Currently there are three public “yes” votes in the Senate GOP conference.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/senate-republicans-trump-national-emergency-border-1189065