I wouldn't necessarily say that. I'd agree that there is more cynicism today (and that people may approach such information skeptically).
Not all cynicism is healthy (it can make a person a misanthrope who hates/distrusts all of society, it can also make someone a post-modernist who sees nothing as black or white just shades of grey and subscribes to moral relativism).
When people are told to "question authority", they should really be told to "question everything, including the guy telling you to question authority".
The left is going rabid over Fox News existing on the airwaves. "Conservatives and mushheads are just getting right wing propaganda dressed up as news" is the scare. Having spent decades wading through the liberal spin in mainstream media broadcasts, some of us have learned to filter what we take in, regardless of the source.
Even a right wing site like Newsmax is taken with a grain of salt here at FR.
What is so ironic is that the cries from the left seem to be from the same 30% who cry that Albert Gore Junior really won the 2000 election and that believed X42 was an honest man up to the moment he admitted he had sex with Monica.
They are so scared that we don't have rational minds yet they consistently pull the wool over their own eyes and eat up the DNC talking points of the day. Their fear is projection, they know what they are and fear that all of society is the same.
Their irrational behavior (mobbing, protesting, rioting in the streets) concerns me but I know that they do not represent the majority of people in this country. That is not to say that Democrats are in the 30% majority, just the die hards who ignore daily truths.