A close friend brought to my attention an npr.org article about Tucker Carlson that elicited from me, the following;
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye
I shouldn’t want to ‘believe’ anything anyone in the media tells me.
Journalists offer stories and ideas that require investigation, not to be taken at face value. Journalists have to earn the right to present ideas to you.
Article such as this one, although I have not checked its voracity, are more about preventing people being exposed to ideas, by debasing the author. They do not want you to even investigate the idea let alone form and opinion and perhaps ‘believe’ in the underlying merit of the idea.