Only half?!
On the right we have Faux et al which clearly mislead viewers. And the trumpers think everybody else is trying to mislead them. Thus why isn’t it about 100% that think the news media is trying to mislead them?
Besides that, we have a general pattern of news media trying to make things seem more important than they are–which is a form of misleading. Even with no political bias in the picture the competition for eyeballs will cause a distortion of the news. Everybody is trying to get an angle–never mind if it’s actually true. Speed and sensationalism take priority over accuracy.
