Can the media regain credibility under Biden?

America’s newsrooms spent the last four years grappling with an arduous challenge: separating the consequential from the petty in President Trump’s endless barrage of malfeasance. Yet with Trump out of office, the media now faces a new task: proving impartiality while covering a president – Joe Biden – who journalists nearly uniformly supported in the 2020 election.

That's a tall order: According to Gallup, only 18 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in television news; for newspapers, that number is 24 percent....