U.S. political, media landscapes deteriorate in past 5 decades: report

NEW YORK, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The political and media landscapes in the United States have seen seismic shifts between the Watergate break-in 50 years ago and the ongoing congressional panel for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, reported Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in U.S. state of Minnesota last week.

During Watergate times, people still trusted in the federal government. A Pew Research Center poll released last week showed that during former U.S. President Richard Nixon's first-term era, 77 percent of Americans believed the federal government would do "what is right" always or most of the time, but that ratio plummeted to 20 percent today.