The Real Cost of Fake News

Nightly news anchors like Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw used to enjoy a sacred relationship with Americans built on trust. But those days are long gone: General Social Survey data show that the share of Americans who trust the press hit a new low of 54% in 2018, down from 84% in 1973. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the Trump-led GOP’s recent war on the …