That’s probably about when it started for me. Their credibiliy was totally destroyed for me in the Spring of 2000 when the Cincinnati riots were well covered here on FR, but were largely ignored by the national media. The extent of how badly we were being lied to by omission became clear to me at that point.
Interestingly, I had lunch with a new acquaintance yesterday, and this subject came up. He happened to have lived in Cincy for a while, moving there shortly after the riots. He didn’t realize that most of the country didn’t know about them, as they were well known locally. He already lent no credibility to the media, this just further cemented it.
what opened my eyes was the overnight transition from the feeding frenzy attack journalism with Bush Sr. (which pales in comparison to the way Bush Jr was treated, and exponentially more so with DJT)...to the slobbering Bill Clinton worship