in the past 5 years or so I would say that it has become apparent to most people who aren't completely blinded by political affiliation that basically every news station is lying, even if it is lies that fall in line with what they want to be true.
This is one good thing that can be said about the past several years, people are tuning out and most sensible people just presume that the MSM are creating news, not reporting it.
Absolutely correct - but this wall to wall deception, IMHO, goes beyond the mainstream media. Mainstream science and academia, mainstream expert bodies are hardly any better.