Confidence in television news and newspapers remains rock bottom, results of the latest survey of U.S. adult citizens by The Economist/YouGov released Tuesday show.According to the national survey conducted July 25-27, just 5%, or one in twenty, Americans have “a great deal” of confidence in newspapers – while eight times as many (40%) have “very little.”Adult Democrats are the most likely to trust what they read in newspapers. Still, only 10% have a great deal of confidence, while 18% have very little. Among both Independents and Republicans, the percent voicing “great trust” is in single digits, while about half say they have “very little” confidence.When comes to television news, the level of confidence is even lower. Only 5% say they have a great deal of trust in what they’re being told, but nearly half (47%) say they have very little confidence.Once again, Democrats are more positive than Independents and Republicans, but they’re still more skeptical than trusting, with 7% expressing great confidence and 25% very little confidence. In contrast, fully 56% of both Independents and Republicans have very little faith in television news.Adult Americans’ distrust in both newspapers and television news appears to jump once they hit 30. Among 18-29 year-olds, 24% have very little confidence in newspapers, but that jumps to between 41-45% for older groups.Regarding television news, 33% of 18-29 year-olds have very little confidence in what’s reported, compared to 53% of those 30-44, 48% of those 45-64 and 51% of those 65 and older.The dour results released Tuesday are consistent with the findings of previous surveys by The Economist/YouGov and Gallup, as neither industry has succeeded in reducing its trust deficit with the nation’s news consumers.

As Judgment Day for Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 behavior approaches, the public demands answers as to why he misled Congress and the American people. Fauci will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on Wednesday morning, where he will address his statements and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, as revealed in his recently released diary. David Bozell, President of the Media Research Center, joined Alex Swoyer on The Chris Plante Show Tuesday morning to react to these new documents. Bozell exposed the hidden villain in this story: the leftist media’s failure to challenge Fauci throughout the pandemic. Bozell noted: “There has been one brief 20-second mention on the CBS Evening News, and Telemundo had a brief mention. But in terms of the morning shows yesterday, the morning shows this morning, most evening broadcast shows, and most of cable—CNN and MSNBC—you basically heard Abby declare they were not going to talk about it. It has been a total blackout.”"It has been a total blackout."The Fauci Diaries reveal everything he recommended was BS and the media don't think that's a story.@DavidBozell rips apart the elitist media for ignoring the Fauci Diaries with @ASwoyer on @ChrisPlanteShow pic.twitter.com/nPYqzTwRDx— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 28, 2026Bozell condemned this blackout, noting that the elitist media didn't just “overlook” Fauci’s fabrications—they were as thick as thieves with the bureaucrat, playing chummy at dinners and trading text messages. “That's why Jake Tapper and Fauci have dinners together. That's why Dana Bash and Fauci text back and forth. They don't mind that Fauci supplies a network with questions to take down a member of the administration. It's all because of this elitist attitude that they alone should be making public policy determinations.The media believe that they — and only they — should be telling the American public what to think.Fauci had the exact same mindset. That's why they got along so well.@DavidBozell torches Fauci and the media for their cozy relationship and narcissistic behavior. pic.twitter.com/yI0Lb3oH4L— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 28, 2026The media’s refusal to cover the recent bombshell news in Fauci's diaries continues their pattern of prioritizing the demonization of President Trump over all else. Watch the entire segment here: 

Screenshot via CBS News 247/Snapstream It was a split decision on Tuesday morning as NBC ended its blackout on the release of the so-called Biden tapes with a full story on Today, and CBS doubled down on its coverage from Monday night with a longer report for CBS Mornings. However, CBS Mornings neglected to continue the network’s coverage of the bombshell Fauci diary and relegated it to their streaming platform, CBS News 24/7.On both counts, ABC’s Good Morning America remained in the dark, thus doing nothing to assuage concerns being raised to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Chairman Brendan Carr about their network’s struggles to serve the public interest. GMA had other priorities, including 73 seconds in the first half hour on twin lottery jackpots of over $1 billion.Thus far, CBS News 24/7 has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on Fauci. More than half of that (7:41) came on Monday’s The Takeout with host Major Garrett giving the floor for Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to preview Wednesday’s Homeland Security Committee hearing with Fauci: CBS News 24/7 -- CBS's free streaming platform -- has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on the Fauci diaries through mid-Tuesday afternoon.Over half of it came early Monday night with this @MajorCBS Garrett interview of @SenRonJohnson previewing Wednesday's hearing with Fauci. pic.twitter.com/TFeLJ4A6dw— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026 Before bringing in Johnson, Garrett took particular notice of one entry: “In one entry, Dr. Fauci wrote, ‘Apparently, the WH is very upset that I am being profiled, and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS being the president of the United States and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm. Very stressful!!’”By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs, including this one in the 9:00 a.m. Eastern hour from co-host Kelly O’Grady, who also said Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci of being dishonest with the public about how the pandemic started.” By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs on CBS News 24/7, including this one in the 9am Eastern hour from co-host @TheKellyOGrady, who also said @SenRandPaul “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci… pic.twitter.com/iuUNCZfJih— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026 Pivoting to the Biden tapes, CBS senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang declared in a two-minute-and-42-second piece on CBS Mornings that “CBS News was first to obtain about two and a half hours of the roughly 70 hours of recording conversations between Biden and his ghostwriter” that “[f]or years, Biden fought to keep them private, but the Justice Department has now released them after a long legal battle.”

New York City’s government-owned grocery stores won’t just sell name products at 30% below their market value – they’ll also have their own store-brand products to compete with private free market businesses.Buried in the details of Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s scheme to open city-owned grocery stores selling products below market value is a plan to launch New York City private labels, branding them as government products competing with private enterprise, free market products.“Private label” products, commonly known as store brands, are sold to stores by (often well-known) third-party manufacturers, with the retailers’ name on the labels. Labeled as the retailer’s unique brand, these products are then sold at prices below those carrying the actual manufacturer’s name-brand label.Mayor Mamdani’s official website notes that the project’s Request for Proposals (RFP) “seeks operator(s) to accomplish the following goals,” among them:“Private label: Operator(s), in collaboration with NYCEDC, will identify and pursue opportunities to launch an N.Y.C. Groceries private label across a variety of product categories.”The Democratic Socialist mayor’s plan for city-owned grocery stores selling items at a 30% discount from that charged by grocers, including small bodegas, has been widely criticized because it will bankrupt private businesses by forcing taxpayers to subsidize the government stores.The result will be Soviet-style bread lines, scarcity, government allocation of food and, ultimately, higher prices, economists and historians warn.Products carrying government labels, such as “N.Y.C. Groceries,” fit neatly into the Socialist paradigm of replacing private enterprise with government control of resources."If he goes forward with his agenda, within about 12 months, those (privately-owned) grocery stores will all be bankrupt,” Economist Stephen Moore Economist explained in an interview with Newsmax:“And then subsidies from city government. And then they’re going to go bankrupt. They’re going to come to Washington and say, ‘Give us a bailout.’” Economist Stephen Moore on Zohran Mamdani: "If he goes forward with his agenda within about 12 months, those grocery stores will all be bankrupt." pic.twitter.com/wNF80E9Ae8— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) July 27, 2026 What’s more, the taxpayer subsidies will never end, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler noted in a social media post: “So not only will New York taxpayers pay $70 million to build government-run grocery stores – they will also pay subsidies in perpetuity to keep them afloat while funding unfair competition against legitimate small businesses.”“One more problem with socialism: you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Administrator Loeffler added.“Hi @ZohranKMamdani, I did some math for you,” New York State Comptroller Candidate Joseph Hernandez writes in a post:“Grocery runs on 1-3% margins. You’re promising 30% off. That gap doesn’t vanish, taxpayers cover it.”….“Subsidized city stores selling 30% below market could push 10-20 bodegas citywide toward closing. “This isn’t affordability. It’s a tax hike disguised as a discount and a private business killer affecting mostly hard working Hispanic immigrants just trying to do the right thing and make a living.”Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) summarized the history of similar efforts in the past to issue a dire warning about Mayor Mamdani’s plan:“This is COMMUNISM. We have history to show exactly what will happen: 1) Gov opens subsidized grocery stores at 30% below cost. 2) Local stores can’t compete and go under. The city store becomes the only option. 3) Shelves go empty. Rationing starts (“2 per customer”). There will be daily rushes, hoarding, and lines around the block. 4) Quality quietly tanks. Wilted produce, thinner cuts, fewer choices. 5) The subsidy bill balloons forever. You didn’t solve hunger. You just built another Soviet bread line.” Hi @ZohranKMamdani, I did some math for you.Grocery runs on 1-3% margins. You’re promising 30% off. That gap doesn’t vanish, taxpayers cover it.Per store: $5.4M/year in sales, but a 30% discount means giving up $1.6M in revenue, a $1.5M annual loss, per store.Across 5… https://t.co/R1JSPD92Sb— Joseph Hernandez (@hernandezforny) July 27, 2026 

CNN via SnapStream Over the weekend, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) released Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary from during the COVID pandemic, exposing his egotism and deep connections with the liberal media elites who worshiped him. Featured predominantly in the writings was CNN’s Jake Tapper, who conveniently omitted any mention of the major breaking news during his two-hour time slot for The Lead, on Monday. Interestingly, the diary exposed how Fauci was feeding interview questions to Tapper.In an entry dated “July 26, 2020 (Sunday),” Fauci wrote: “Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullshit about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.”As NewsBusters reported at the time, Tapper was incredibly hostel toward the Coronavirus Task Force’s Admiral Brett Giroir, MD. At one point, Tapper claimed he was having audio problems and rudely interrupted Giroir, as he was answering a question clearly, and assailed the Admiral (Click “expand”):TAPPER: Are you happy where testing is right now?GIROIR: I'm never going to be happy until we have this under control. And we're going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing, the type of testing that we have, and the rapidity of turnaround. Where we see the growth here is in point of care. We will have about 50 million tests available in August, about 65 million in September.TAPPER: Hold on one second, sir. I'm having audio problems. But let me -- let me -- I'm while I'm fixing my audio, let me ask this to you. The Harvard Institute of Global Health says that the U.S. should be conducting three to five million tests per day, three to five million tests a day. We're doing, as you noted, less than 800,000.Experts also note that the Trump administration has not fully activated all of the labs available, including hospital labs, commercial non-clinical labs, academic labs, veterinary labs.I know that you're saying that things have improved a lot. And they have. But you also concede that they're not where they need to be. Why is the Trump administration not doing everything it can to get testing where it needs to be?GIROIR: So, every one of those things examples that you said, we're - we're absolutely doing. So, I'm not quite sure why you're saying we're not doing them. Just this week, I had a call with over 500 university presidents, provosts, and vice presidents, and we have been talking to governors for at least a month, maybe two months, about activating the university labs.It’s unclear which questions Fauci fed to him, but Tapper would go on a diatribe against Giroir and accused him and others on the task force of being afraid to upset President Trump (Click “expand”):TAPPER: The Trump administration has invoked the Defense Production Act. True. They have done so with to -- for swabs, to get N95 masks, to get ventilators. Accurate. Has the Trump administration, has the President invoked the DPA to get labs up to speed, lab hiring and lab equipment? And you don't even need to do the DPA to do that for federal labs. That's what I'm talking about.There seems to be this reluctance to push the President to do what he needs to do to get the testing up to speed. I know that he's under the misguided impression that more testing is bad and makes him look bad, which, as you know, is completely false.And I'm wondering if you and others are just afraid to do this because you don't want to upset him, afraid to ask him to do what he needs to do, to invoke the DPA, to force the federal labs to get up to speed to where we need to be, so that we can isolate the virus.As you know, when you say people who need a test can get a test, there's a huge percentage of people who have the coronavirus who are asymptomatic, and they, quote, unquote, "don't need to be tested," according to this standard.But the point is, in order to identify and isolate the virus, it needs to be much more widespread, the testing, so we can see people who are carriers who don't have symptoms. That's the point.Are you afraid to bring this up to President Trump because it will upset him?  At one point, Tapper got into one of his infamous screaming matches with a guest (Click “expand”):TAPPER: But it's not enough!GIROIR: Of course, it's enough. Tell me one thing that we should be doing with any of these private labs that we're not doing or they're not doing on their own, and I'm happy to do it. I talk to hundreds of people each week, academics, the Rockefeller Foundation, really smart people that we're working with. We have a national implementation forum for testing that we're going to be getting together this week. I talk to ACLA, APLU, universities, private labs, hospitals, you name it. We're getting input on a daily basis. If there's a stone that needs to be turned that is left unturned, you tell me what it is. But, from my vantage point -TAPPER: I just told you!GIROIR: - we have invoked all the authorities.TAPPER: Get federal labs -- get federal labs to hire more people and get more equipment, so you can increase turnaround times. Invoke the DPA, so that commercial labs all over the country, ones that you're not using -- five veterinary labs is not impressive to me, sir.GIROIR: No, no, no.TAPPER: Get all of those labs up to speed.GIROIR: I didn't say that. No, no, no. No, I said five veterinary labs have their CLIA certification to officially test human patients. There are a lot of labs who are doing surveillance testing that don't need the CLIA certification. And maybe I will nuance this a little bit. Surveillance testing is a way that -TAPPER: But no one thinks that testing is up to speed where it needs to be. No one - no one thinks it's where it needs to be. And yet you have spent this entire interview talking about how great and perfect everything is.GIROIR: No, I - I - TAPPER: But this is the weakest part of the response to this virus, is testing and where it is not -[Crosstalk]GIROIR: I started out -- I started out by saying that we are never going to be happy with testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours. And I would be happy with point-of-care testing everywhere. We are not there yet. We are doing everything we can to do that.Later in the diary entry, Fauci recounts getting a message from Tapper about the interview. “Jake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius [sic] at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly [sic] questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all,” he wrote.That wasn’t even the first time they commiserated about Giroir.In entry labeled “April 19, 2020,” Fauci documented: “Had conversation with Jake Tapper who is asking where the 27 million tests by end of March came from (Brett Giroir). Fact is I have no idea how he got that number. Deb Birx has no confidence in Giroir, nor do I.” CNN via SnapStream The name “Tapper” appears 41 times throughout Fauci’s diary.Two mentions were particularly revealing as they showed Fauci had repeatedly dined with Tapper and his wife Jennifer at their home, during the pandemic, during a time he was demanded people be isolated, during a time when he demanded the sick die alone and scared in hospitals.“Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building,” he gushed on “July 1, 2020” like a high school girl writing about her crush while laying on her beg and kicking her legs in the air. Again, on “October 23, 2020,” he fondly noted: “Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.”Having others feed him and steer his questions seems to be something Tapper enjoyed. A revealing New York Times story in 2017 exposed how then CNN boss Jeff Zucker was actively in Tapper’s ear from the booth during an infamous and contentious interview with then-Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway.Tapper may not mention it on his show, but he knows we all see his dirty laundry.Click here to read the transcript.News Analyst Jorge Bonilla contributed to this report.