Comment: No, it's not "fair to consider why journalist are in such disfavor among a majority of Americans."
One, a majority of Americans don't dislike journalists. They dislike liars, except those who love Trump: And that's the most ironic thing of all. Trump is a pathological liar, incessantly tweeting, speaking and writing lies; sending out surrogates to lie; paying attorneys to lie for him, sending out his official White House communications team to lie for him and requiring his cabinet and other members of his administration to lies and swear fealty to him.  Trump IS fake news personified. He uses it to deflect attention from his more meaningful lies. He lies about and preempts truth tellers by proactively calling their works fake news, his own lies becoming fake news. 
Two.  A majority of Americans cannot stand Trump and do not want him to be seen as representing America. Quite the opposite. Trumps "successes and failures" belong to him and his idiot followers alone. Leave me out of it.