On Fox News recently, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany talked about the latest Gallup poll that found distrust in media has hit yet another record low and she offered her take on the reasons why.

Showing three pairs of contradictory headlines from years past — including one from The Washington Post that said “it’s doubtful” that COVID-19 emerged from a lab and another, a year later, that called the theory “credible” — McEnany said that “false narratives” presented as news are responsible for low trust.

Others have a sharply different take and assign blame to McEnany’s former boss, President Donald Trump, who popularized the term “fake news.”

There’s also the deliberate spread of misinformation on social media, and the sheer number of news outlets offering counterpoint

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