Mainstream media has been pretty awful in recent decades....and before. One reason is the concentration of ownership, thanks to the Clintonn administration. This is not just true for US domestic news, for example, in Italy the late Sylvio Berlusconi owned something north of 90% of mainstream media outlets. He was able to use those to elect parliaments so friendly that they would retroactively forgive Berlusconi for his crimes.
US Media is larger, and owned by five or six corporations (some even in the military-industrial complex) and is even more concentrated. Alternative media is really the only dependable source of news. We all might remember that the NY Times' Judith Miller basically backed attacking Iraq, even though the motivations for the attack were fabricated by the Bush administration. Sylvio Berlusconi supplied a forged letter that suggested Iraq was buying nuclear materials from Niger.
This, and many other incidents lead people to believe Trump's "fake news" allegations.
Here's an interview video that corrects a lot of the current coverage of the Gaza war:
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