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“Public attitudes about the press have been declining for nearly 20 years,” the report said. “Americans think journalists are sloppier, less professional, less moral, less caring, more biased, less honest about their mistakes and generally more harmful to democracy than they did in the 1980s.”

And I didn't trust the media even in the 80s . . .

Yeah, he's playing the old shell game there.

First he says that the public doesn't trust the media. Then, he pulls a switch and says that it's the fault of Fox News Channel, when all the while it's been the alphabet nets, their counterparts at the NYT, WashPost, and the rest of the print media that have been spinning like mad for the liberal "cause" (or "scam", if you like) for decades now.

Pinning the blame for their own loss of credibility on someone else is not just standard operating procedure for them - far from it. It is actually rooted in the very conceptual framework of liberalism!

The motivation for this type of behavior is a deep, broad portion of the entire liberal mindset. It is the idea that they are in no way responsible for their fates as individuals. To the liberal mind, their successes are the result of impersonal "historical inevitibility", and any failures are the result of a vast, shadowy conspiracy.

This explains the perpetual claim of victim status by liberal individuals and groups.

Even when failure is the result of bad decisions, bad choices, bad luck, sloth, dishonesty, or any combination thereof, the liberal MUST place blame on something other than their own person or group, or the whole conceptual house of cards comes crashing down in a tidal wave of cognitive dissonance.

I could go on and on and on deconstructing the foolish, childish, and yet dangerous liberal mindset, but I would end up getting WAY off-topic.