Today we see a similar manifestation in the context of fake news that spreads faster than true news, which undermines our confidence in the media. Has it reall

Today we see a similar manifestation in the context of fake news that spreads faster than true news, which undermines our confidence in the media. Has it really? I would think the editorial quality of any publication has not noticeably diminished over the last three years. Has most of the "undermining of confidence in the media" been really been a manifestation to dislike publications that one already despised, such that there is now just more people openly stating it and that now more people are agreeing with it? At the same time, I am interested if there have been any studies performed that compared the populations perceptions of particular publication's accuracy / quality over time compared to an unbiased organization independently (if one such exists) assessing the quality of the reporting over time.