Calling it an erosion of trust is so backwards. Like respect, trust is to be earned. In some fields, especially medical jurisprudence, science became trusted because a few hard-working noble individuals held their work to the highest levels of rigor and proved themselves trustworthy. What we are seeing is an erosion of credibility. edit: I realize you're talking about media trust and I'm talking about science trust I just think they're similar subjects but I'm far more familiar with the former and they both have morons asking "why don't you trust me"