The media began to lose more credibility when they decided they did not have to be fair in reporting on Trump

Power Line:

Kim Strassel’s new book, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America, officially goes on sale tomorrow. Rarely has a book been so timely; I recommend that you buy it.

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To get a sense of what Resistance is about, see this excerpt in the New York Post. A brief quote:

All reporters sometimes bend a rule, or go out on a limb or get something wrong. But the important thing is that they usually do this in aid of getting truth to the public. What has defined the media breakdown that started in 2016 was the press’ abandonment of standards in aid of peddling a narrative — rather than reality. This abandonment has had terrible consequences for the industry and for the country. A Monmouth University poll in early 2018 found that a whopping 77 percent of Americans believe traditional TV and newspaper outlets report “fake news.” And 42 percent of respondents said they believed outlets did this specifically to promote a political agenda. These kinds of numbers are alarming for civil society.

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Their hatred of his policies and of the man has cost them their credibility. By siding with the Democrats so blandtently they have unwittingly diminished that party too.