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Two things happened recently.

Most recent first: A Pew survey of trust in “journalists” has people talking.

The results are stark and not easily dismissed. It found that just 6% of Americans “have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public.” Among Republicans, that percentage is 2%; Democrats bump it up to 9%.

In previous iterations of these stats, establishment journos simply blamed Orange Man. The argument barely worked then. It was more of a salve for hurt reporter egos than it was reality.

It almost certainly won’t work now.

The second thing that happened was that Peggy Noonan, a........

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