As we learned from reading our textbook – or at least from reviewing the midterm in class – news media are not held in high regard by the public. Research by the University of Leeds, our text points out on page 3, shows that “while people rely heavily on the media for information, most of them distrust the media’s motives and operational methods.” They feel the news organisations are ‘just looking for a story’ and are driven primarily by circulation and audience figures. The scepticism affected all media, but mostly the press, and the tabloid press in particular. That was more than a decade ago. Are the news media more or less trusted now? Well, if a new study titled “Bias, Bullshit and Lies” is anything to judge by, public trust in the news media has likely sunk even lower in the past 10 years. It was released last week by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford and polled almost 18,000 people in nine countries (U.S., Germany, UK, Ireland, Spain, Denmark