I left the MSM right around the time things were moving even more leftwards at “the local level”.
The media people have sunk their own ship with the political correctness permeating from the corporate boardrooms right down into the newsrooms.
That is a big part of this trend (”Anger towards media spreads into local communities”); when you see local columnists who would normally be writing about local concerns suddenly penning op-eds against Trump and the normals that support him, it is clear that even they though are small operators, the local news outlets are :fake news” - and thoroughly Dem in their outlooks.
My local rag is struggling to stay afloat as it faces a problem it helped create: a dearth of English speakers to read its BS.