10/ "Journalists can whine abt this.. but when less than 1/3 of Amer's trust mass media, few folks are listening to them...While traditionally deep distrust of mainstrm press long been province of rt-wing GOP, now it’s liberals who once cheered for media to do better who seem to be giving up on them.
This is not great...plunge in faith leads to cancelled subscriptions that leads to laid-off reporters or shuttered printing plants—not the vision of founders who believed a free press is essential"