It's not the same click bait driven hype machine. The press used to be able to cover "real news". However, with their revenues declining many in the media have

It's not the same click bait driven hype machine. The press used to be able to cover "real news". However, with their revenues declining many in the media have no choice but to use click bait driven headlines and the like. However, if users show an interest in "real news", the media will cater to that. I'd also argue that most of the people complaining about the media rarely if ever read the news. They sit around making claims like the media lied so that's why I don't read any of it. It's like yes people make mistakes. The news media in particular will generally go out of its way to correct mistakes in coverage or correct a mischaracterization of a story or fix errors. Remember if everyone was just discarded every time they made a mistake at work, there would be no one working. The media and people will make mistakes but you don't discard them simply because they made mistakes especially when they will correct the mistake once they are made aware of said mistake. I would be skeptical of those who don't believe in correcting their own mistakes when they happen and those who think they do no wrong.