According to Gallup, which has measured trust in mass media for 50 years, that trust just hit another record low. Well, that makes sense. That was during the Walter Cronkite and Watergate era, before people had access to any kind of alternative media. “However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%.”This also makes sense. The fake media — CBSNBCABCNPRCNNMSNBCPBSWashingtonPostNewYorkTimes,etc.—are still out there, but the thing that most matters to them, their ability to shape public opinion, is gone, gone, gone.