A new Pew Research Center poll found a growing number of people believe the media and academia are having a negative impact on America. Professor Mark Grabowski provided his analysis of the findings.

Grabowski told the Huffington Post that public trust in the press is declining because many media outlets focus on the wrong stories. “Russia isn’t going to pay the mortgage, lower healthcare premiums or pay off student loans,” he said referring the the media's fixation with President Trump and Russia.

In his Washington Examiner column, Grabowski opined on why a majority of Republicans believe colleges are having a negative effect on the country. "Too many colleges are not delivering what they promise: an education and a job," he wrote. "And the consequences have been a disaster for America."

Mark Grabowski, who teaches internet law and ethics at Adelphi University, weighed in on several recent issues related to his field, including revenge porn, net neutrality and internet anonymity.

Revenge Porn: In light of the Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna controversy, Grabowski warned in the New York Post that New York state's revenge porn law is woefully inadequate. “It’s endemic of the law lagging behind technology,” he said. Lawmakers “are out of touch with the technological issues people are facing.”

Net Neutrality: Grabowski told VOA News, come fall, your internet service could be throttled, Netflix could be blocked and politically controversial text messages could be censored if the FCC follows through with its all-but-formalized plan to roll back net neutrality regulations. Listen to interview here, beginning at 14:00 mark.

Internet Anonymity: In his column, ​Grabowski addressed CNN's threat to reveal an anonymous internet user who created a meme attacking them. The meme went viral after being retweeted by President Trump. Grabowski called CNN's response an "Orwellian overreaction." He explained in the Washington Examiner, "A news organization's mission is to report the news, not to thought-police the internet and threaten to make people famous if they make fun of it."

Professor and pundit Mark Grabowski, who is also a lawyer, weighed in on two political lawsuits that made headlines in the past week: state attorney generals' lawsuit against President Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution's Emoluments Clause and Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against the New York Times.

In separate columns for the Washington Examiner, Grabowski predicted that neither lawsuit would likely succeed.

"The Emoluments Clause has been a dead letter since the 18th century," Grabowski explained. "The clause has never been litigated. No federal court has ever interpreted it directly. Legal scholars have debated whether it even applies to the president. It is incapable of judicial interpretation in the modern era without a detailed statutory and regulatory scheme.Moreover, it has been a presidential custom to violate the clause."

On the Palin lawsuit, he wrote, "As a result of the landmark 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan, public officials like Palin must prove actual malice in order to recover damages. It's an almost insurmountable burden of proof: showing the paper knew what it said was false or acted with reckless disregard of the truth."

Grabowski's columns were discussed by the Conservative Tribune, American Thinker, The Whim and law professor blogs.