"As for the media, the poll showed just 20 percent of Americans trust television news or newspapers, meaning that four out of five people reading this sentence, and this story, do so with a skeptical eye for its veracity."

And yet NCR doesn't ponder whether it is part of this problem.   

Whether it has leaned so heavily into its political bias, that it has forsaken the principles of good journalism in order to win a culture war.  

Whether it has taken the low road of character assassination by condemning as ignorant or evil everyone who has a different political or ecclesiastical opinion.