The peoples trust in our media to report the news fully, fairly and accurately has been declining a very long time. Trust in the media reached its high of 72% back in 1976. Since then it has been declining. Down into the 50's during Bill Clinton, down into the 40's for G.W. Bush and Obama to reaching its new low at the end of Obama of 32%. All of this pre-Trump. Our media has taken sides in our political battles which is why I think the distrust in it has been growing.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
Almost all the media sides with the left, until the advent of cable news, this bias was mostly covert. With cable news it has become glaringly overt. This is shown in that 51% of Democrats trust the media compared to just 14% of Republicans. Independents come in at 30%, the non-affiliated, less to non-partisan, who also don't put much stock in our present day media to report the news fully, fairly and accurately.
Not to this level.This is as Unamerican as it gets.Trump has like 3-4% of Stories reported by the
MSM and Press as Positive.The rest are Negative.I don't think One Barack HUSSEIN Obama received
3-4% Negative.It was like 99% + Positive and maybe 1 % slightly negative.By negative meaning
not critical as much as questioning.
So Trump receives around 3-4 % Postive leaving 96 % Negative.
Plus this was not openly reported but a year or so after Brennan was selected to run the
CIA a story came out that our CIA was given some kind of clearance to purposedly use
Propaganda as a tool.I'll look for a header { Story by the Press }.
In July of 2013 The U.S. Government just got the green light to use propaganda
made for Foreign audiences on the American Public.
So the Smith-Mundt Act that endured for decades that government-made media
intended for foreign audiences doesn't end up on radio networks broadcast within the U.S.
This was an extension of The National Defense Authorization Act which Obama manipulated
and changed secretly on a New years Eve.That was in 2012.Obama pledged he would not
sign it,when it's use was being debated.He secretly late on a New Years eve,made the signatory.
Obama signed another version a few years later.
The 2011 Version on New years eve allowed for Indefinite detention for anyone considered
a combatant,even citizens in the U.S. Held indefinitely with No right of due process.