Same As It Ever Was

Yep. The roots of our nation’s political media predicament (not just the drama at CNN) trace back in part at the very least to Agnew’s “nattering nabobs of negativism” attacks and to those “I don’t believe the Post” bumper stickers from five decades ago …. https://t.co/S7S4Wvfgjf

— George Conway 🇺🇦 (@gtconway3d) June 8, 2023

As I've said before, I know people who went to their graves convinced Nixon was railroaded, and not believing a word of what the press told them.

Frankly, I think that partisan skepticism is as American as cherry pie.  Agnew wasn't inventing it (through the words of William Safire, who was never an original thinker, not a day in his life):  he was picking up an old, old, old American political theme.  In a milder form, my father read the "Dallas Morning News" because he didn't believe the news (actually more the editorial stance, but still) in the rival "Dallas Times Herald."

He was not unusual in his choice of whose news to find acceptable.

Same as it ever was.