Bingo!!!
“It is not that the public is no longer interested in the news. It is that the public no longer believes the news media is delivering the news.”
I’ll buy that but also think the public realizes that too much old news is being repeated. It’s boring. For many, Covid is boring, climate change hysteria is boring.
I prefer reading “news” rather than watching it because one can fast-forward through a document.
But no doubt a lot of the news is distorted, and a lot of news is not reported at all.
Another thing that’s easily noticed in printed news is the wasted words, like the author is showing off or is required to fill space or write something to meet regular deadlines.