As news about the novel coronavirus has gripped the country in recent weeks, a series of Knight Foundation/Gallup surveys finds that Americans are paying "a great deal" of attention to the news at levels not seen over the past three years.
Attention to local and international news has doubled since December 2019, and attention to national news has increased 13 percentage points.These findings are from an online, probability-based Gallup Panel survey conducted March 17-29 with 1,449 U.S.
adults.Despite the spike in news attention, general attitudes toward the media remain unchanged. Like the 2018 and 2019 results, 34% of Americans currently hold a very favorable or somewhat favorable view of the media, an opinion strongly shaped by partisan