It's no surprise that Americans don't trust a biased news media

According to a recent joint Gallup and Knight Foundation poll, just about nobody trusts the news media these days.

I realize that this is hardly “breaking news.” A lot of us figured out a long time ago that many journalists had a political ax to grind — and it was a bias that usually went in just one direction. But these latest numbers are pretty bad: 86 percent of Americans say there is either a “fair amount” or a “great deal” of political bias in news coverage. That’s astounding. Nearly...