People shouldn't trust the media. It's filled with people who go into it because they want to change the world. There's nothing wrong with that but if you consume it thinking that shouldn't be or isn't the case you're going to come away feeling betrayed.
The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers that are explicitly premised on describing the world only because they think they can use the trust that comes from that to change the world. Those people aren't in media though.
You wont get access to interviews or access to information if you don't agree upfront to support a certain agenda.
A journalist who tries to report against the agenda gets blacklisted immediately.
Mika Brzezinski was threatened by the Hillary campaign who tried to have her fired from MSNBC for making remarks against Hillary on her show Morning Joe.
It does sound very worthwhile! But in order for it to be useful people need to be able to trust you, and in order to build and keep credibility, you need to be able to stick to reporting "honestly and without bias" even in the face of countless temptations to be a bit dishonest or one-sided in your reporting, burning some credibility for short-term gain.
Of the people who want to change the world, how many can be convinced of the usefulness of such principled behavior, and actually stick to it? How many organizations? Empirically it doesn't look like very many.
If we have learned anything from the past two decades it is that anti-bias measures lead to less competent reporting.
The reasonable complaints about bias - those can be much better addressed by a focus on competency.
Failing to expose malfeasance within a liked administration is primarily an act of ineptitude. Correcting that seems a much surer path to less biased journalism.
There's differnt types of journalism though. Newscasters should absolutely be impartial and just a delivery mechanism of news. Investigative journalists are supposed to dig deep and get to the answers. You can't really be impartial. You're either going to prove or disprove something. Once that is done, the newscasters can do an impartial coverage of the facts that were discovered.
>The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers
because they want to be famous. These people we see on "news" programs don't give a rat's ass about the news, and only want to be the one people are watching.
The reasons you offer may be good arguments against unliked news but do not seem to follow a path to effectively false news.
I would restate the assertion to read: People shouldn't trust any news source implicitly - until trust is carefully nurtured thru the reader's regular and independent vetting of stories.
The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers that are explicitly premised on describing the world only because they think they can use the trust that comes from that to change the world. Those people aren't in media though.