Worth reading the article for the other interesting facts that stand out. The key one being that Democrats, despite also having all-time low confidence in TV news, have way higher confidence in it even than Independents do. It's a reflection of exactly how homogenised and pandering the media establishment is, and that most Americans of all stripes can see exactly who it panders to.

Another curiosity is that when Gallup started polling this, in 1992, confidence in TV news was way higher than newspapers. I assume it was because papers included tabloid rags, looney sources like the Fortean Times, and was seen as cheap and disposable. As time passed, aside from a blip in the 2000s (which might reflect the Murdoch empire cheerleading the Iraq war), papers overtook TV in trust - which coincides with the emergence of rolling news, increasingly melodramatic anchors and more and more activist talking heads pushing 'facts'.

Anyway, trust in both is now in the toilet where it belongs. Let's keep flushing until it goes around the bend.