It's not so much that the MSM are reporting untruths. The problem lies with the MSM omitting every detail from every story that doesn't support the agendas they are determined to push or burying stories they don't approve of all together. Then at the same time taking some minuscule detail of another story that happens to support said agenda and running it 24/7 to hammer their agenda home like a wrecking ball. Like they say, you are there to report the news not make it. People have grown tired of being force fed agendas all day long and want to think for themselves based on the facts.
I agree with this too.
The 24 hour news cycles has created a bastardization of what we now say is "News".
News used to be this:
Fact, fact, fact, public service announcement about the fact, fact, fact, fact....
Now News is this:
Fact, fact, "interpretation of the fact" by a biased "expert" that has clear left/right leanings, discussion of said fact and it's
possible impact on you, fact, more "experts" talking about the interpretation of the fact, et.al.
The fall of news has been completely correlated to the rise of the "opinion editorial" importance in our 24-7 news cycle. Networks have decided to make celebrities of the op-ed personalities on TV. And they in turn have grown fat and pompous in their importance to our news cycle.
This is not just a left-wing problem. This is ALL news broadcasts. And the right does is just as much (if not more).
In order to fill a 24 hour news cycle, "reporting" the actual news in a non-biased and accurate way has taken a back seat to "analyzing the news" and providing "opinion" of it's effects on all of us. And this analysis and opinion is often through the lens of political bias and corporate agenda.
I remember when CNN just used to be a 30-minute or 60-minute old-school news broadcast that used to just be repeated on an infinite loop throughout the day. That was back when Ted Turner owned it. And his idea was to provide "news" whenever people wanted it. Not just at 6:30 at night. And the "anchors" at CNN had no celebrity at all. In fact, they changed often and were almost faceless.
Modern news is nothing like this anymore. And you can't even find it if you look for it.