Media having trouble figuring out why people do not trust them

Power Line:
The Associated Press headlines: “Trust and truth under Trump: Americans are in a quandary.” Well, the AP is, anyway:
[A] year into Donald Trump’s fact-bending, media-bashing presidency, Americans are increasingly confused about who can be trusted to tell them reliably what their government and their commander in chief are doing.
Many would say that we are a year into the liberal press’s fact-bending, Trump-bashing orgy. But that doesn’t seem to occur to the AP. This is one of those articles where the AP quotes six or eight seemingly random people from across the country. You always wonder how they come up with “truck driver Chris Gromek,” “Democrat Kathy Tibbits of Tahlequah, Oklahoma,” “Victoria Steel, 50, of Cheyenne, Wyoming,” and so on. This article’s cast of characters seems reasonably well-balanced, but the AP’s commentary isn’t. This is how the AP sees the “warping of facts.”
Though Trump’s habit of warping facts has had an impact, it’s not just him.
Is it also the AP’s, the New York Times’s and the Washington Post’s habit of warping the facts? Just kidding. That isn’t where the AP is headed.
Widely shared falsehoods have snagged the attention of world leaders such as Pope Francis and former President Barack Obama. Last year, false conspiracy theories led a North Carolina man to bring a gun into a pizza parlor in the nation’s capital, convinced that the restaurant was concealing a child prostitution ring. Just last week, after the publication of an unflattering book about Trump’s presidency, a tweet claiming that he is addicted to a TV show about gorillas went viral and prompted its apparent author to clarify that it was a joke.
That last item about the gorillas is the only one the AP mentions where “fake news” is anti-Trump or anti-conservative. 
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There is more.

While the gorilla story was a spoof there have been numerous factual errors by the media since Trump took office.  They are locked into a narrative that is not supported by the facts like the alleged Russian collusion with Trump to win the election.  Retractions and corrections have become routine since that story was pushed by the Clinton campaign to explain why she lost.

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