Is There a Collapse in Trust in Traditional Institutions?

There's been a dramatic erosion in the willingness of people to believe what they're told. Private media or proprietary media instead of everyone watching Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley in one of the three networks We now have cable news with obvious partisan bias, AM top radio where particular political viewpoint is just hammered and fans Listen to that and don't listen to the stations on the other side. It's also there's been more residential segregationPeople who are a symbol manipulating professionals who have high degree of education gravitate to Urban areas and university towns others stay in rural and ex-urban areas. There's a decline in institutions that used to bring people together from different social classes different degrees