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Americans' confidence in institutions is broadly stable, but organized religion has sunk to another low while big business and banks have recovered slightly.

Ben Smith, cofounder and editor in chief of Semafor, joins the podcast to discuss the loss of faith in U.S. news and media and the major industry changes over recent decades that have created today's news environment.

Americans continue to place little confidence in the nation's major institutions, with their average confidence levels nearing record lows. Confidence in newspapers and in organized religion both dropped to their lowest levels yet.

NBC News Managing Editor and Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended without pay for six months as a result of his superiors' determination that he "misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War," and also ...

Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news rebounded slightly in the past year, having been stuck at record lows since 2007. Americans aged 30 to 49 and men registered significant improvements in their views of each.

Wesley Lowery joins the podcast to discuss the record lows in confidence in the media.

Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%. Nine percent say newspapers or other print publications are their main news source, followed by radio, at 6%.

In November 1936, a month before King Edward VIII of England abdicated to marry an American divorcee, a majority of Americans favored the union.

While 56% of White adults in the U.S. say they are confident in the police, far fewer Black adults (19%) say the same. The police elicit the largest racial gap in confidence among 16 institutions tested.

Americans are paying more attention to local news and rate its coronavirus coverage positively, but most of their fundamental attitudes about local news are not improving.