You should look up Gell-Mann amnesia. The basic premise IIRC is that the media's credibility is undeserved. You go through a newspaper reading about this and that, nodding along. When you happen upon an article in a field you know a lot about you realise how clueless the reporters writing the article are. You turn the page, get to the next article and forget all about reporters's cluelessness or the fact that it might extend to other fields you do not know that much about.