Do you trust the news? You are part of a small minority.

From the Gallup poll:

The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey, which found the military faring best and Congress faring worst of 16 institutions tested. Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news is on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business.

In 1990 about 39% of the American people trusted newspapers.  That has fallen by over one-third.  In other terms, in 1990 about 117 million people trusted newspapers, today only 75 million do.  That still represents lots of gullible people, but the number of the gullible are dropping.  That's why newspapers are losing readers, losing money and losing the race to survive.