Late CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was considered "the most trusted man in America."

Back then, Americans had a much higher opinion of the news media than they do today.

Earlier this year, an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll revealed only 8 percent of Americans had a "great deal" of confidence in the media, while 18 percent said they had "no confidence at all."

The numbers are almost the exact opposite of what they were in 1976 -- in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

CBN News spoke with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute about this distrust of the media in the U.S.

Click play to watch as he explains where these feelings of bias and dishonesty come from and what Americans are now turning to for their news.