Here's a little point to ponder. Surveys over the past 2 decades have consistently shown that journalists are the least trusted profession - and doctors the most trusted.
But then how the hell is there still an antivax movement ? Why is it still killing kids ? Because it turns out - people trust scary media reports that say vaccines will kill their kids more than they trust their doctors. A lot more. In that case - the journalists were being, at best, unethical for continuing to publish stories long after the claim was fully debunked (and lets face it - science reporting in the media is generally atrocious to begin with) - yet millions upon millions of people trusted them more than they trusted their doctors.

The conclusion is that surveys about media trust are utterly useless - what people SAY they believe have no actual correlation with what they do (as the subscriptions also show).  It turns out they even trust 'media' with no facts or ethics at all. They believed pizzagate.