Trump says repeatedly that Fake News is the enemy of the American people. It’s consistently translated into the free press is the enemy..., the media is the enemy..., or freedom of the press is the enemy. These are all deliberatly deceptive things, and very different from what was said. The result is people don’t trust the media to reliably differentiate between wiping their asses and parting their hair.
We aren’t supposed to remember the legacy of “yellow journalism”