Let’s be honest: Trust in the media hasn’t just declined, it’s collapsed. Poll after poll confirms the obvious: barely a third of Americans believe what the media tells them, and record numbers say they don’t trust the press at all. That’s not just a public opinion problem; it’s a credibility crisis.
And the press has no one to blame but itself. Once intended to serve as a check on government power, the mainstream media has morphed into something far more dangerous: a shield for the powerful and a mouthpiece for one political party. The most glaring example? Their years-long effort to cover up Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.
But instead of owning up to their role in deceiving the public, the media points the finger — where else? — at Donald Trump. Of course they do. When they’re not carrying water for the Democrats, they’re busy blaming Trump for the mess they made.
The truth is, the media stopped speaking truth to power a long time ago. Now it speaks for power — so long as that power has a (D) next to its name. And Americans are waking up to it.
The mainstream media's desperate attempts to blame Donald Trump for their credibility crisis would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic. Fox News anchor Bret Baier just dropped some truth bombs about why Americans have lost faith in journalism, and surprise, surprise, it's not because the former president said mean things about reporters.
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Rather, Baier's candid exchange with Politico's Dasha Burns exposed exactly how the media elite shot themselves in the foot.
“Who do you think is to blame for the lack of trust in the media, for the loss of trust in the media?” Burns asked.
Baier didn't mince words: "Well, the media, clearly."
He pointed out how they chased stories that "didn't pan out" and shamelessly inserted opinion into what were supposed to be straight news programs.
But here's what was really rich: Burns couldn't help trying to pin some blame on Trump, asking if he had "any role to play." That's cute. While Baier acknowledged Trump "broke the system," he made it crystal clear that the media's credibility problem runs much deeper than mean tweets from Trump.
Baier nailed it when he pointed out that “Middle America didn’t trust what they were getting from a lot of media.” And can you blame them? These are the same so-called “experts” who botched the 2024 election predictions, peddled the Russia collusion hoax for years, and worked harder to protect Joe Biden than his own campaign staff ever did.
Here's what explains the lack of trust in the media today, according to Fox News anchor Bret Baier 👇
— POLITICO (@politico) May 9, 2025
🎧 Listen to his full interview with White House bureau chief @dashaburns on today’s Playbook Deep Dive: https://t.co/xoK4n65qrG pic.twitter.com/GlNQiPB5Yz
This crisis of trust didn’t begin with Trump. The media establishment abandoned objectivity a long time ago, but in the past two decades, they’ve gone from biased to outright propagandistic. News programs have been replaced by partisan echo chambers that pump out talking points under the guise of “defending democracy.” But Americans aren’t buying it. They know when they’re being lied to, and they can spot agenda-driven reporting from a mile away.
The truth is, the mainstream media did this to themselves. They chose partisan narratives over facts, activism over journalism, and their own ideology over the truth. Until they're willing to take a long, hard look in the mirror and admit how far they've fallen, they can keep wondering why nobody believes them anymore.
For Baier, one of the few remaining honest brokers in mainstream media, to admit this publicly speaks volumes. The question is: will anyone in those newsrooms actually listen?
