Poll: US news media trust falling

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A new poll in the United States has shown that three-quarters of Americans do not trust the country's newspapers and television news.

The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey published on Friday, which has found that 75 percent of the respondents do not have confidence in newspapers, with 78 percent distrusting television news.

The Gallup surveyed 1,020 people on 16 US institutions and gave an error margin of four percentage points.

The dismal results showed that the American near-record low confidence in news media came ahead of Health Management Organizations and big business.

The survey found the military rated best and US Congress rated worst out of the 16 institutions tested.

Although no more than one-quarter of Americans trust the struggling news media, the greatest confidence in newspapers --49 percent-- ironically came from young people aged 18-29, which Gallup linked to the fact that young people tended to be more confident in institutions in general.

There is a dramatic decline in confidence, however, as Americans get older with only 19 percent of people aged 30-49 trusting newspapers.

Experts say the US media are not gaining new fans as Americans continue to express low confidence in line with a steady slide over the past two decades.

Turkey, Brazil reject Iran sanctions

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The leaders of Turkey and Brazil have informed the US president that they are still opposed to imposing sanctions on Iran.

In a meeting with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC on Tuesday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey opposed the US calls for sanctions to be imposed on Iran.

The two leaders advised President Obama to seek a "negotiated solution" to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program in order to avoid imposing new UN sanctions on the country.

The meeting, which was not on the agenda and lasted barely 15 minutes, focused "exclusively on Iran," Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told reporters at a press conference after the trilateral meeting.

It was "a frank, sincere exchange," Amorin said, adding that President Lula had asked President Obama to "give a chance" to further negotiations.

However, both leaders failed to obtain a firm response from the US president that he would "wait" on the sanctions issue, the Brazilian foreign minister said.

But President Obama's reaction "was not categorical," Amorim noted, adding that the US leader is "not at all negative about attempting a negotiated solution."