Personally, it's never a media vs reported target question for me: media are untrustworty whatsoever, especially mainstream ones. As Corbyn excellently put it the other day, "we believe in free press... now we pray for press to free itself from its corporate shareholders' agenda".

_{Sure, we're talking about interpretations/narrative actively built by mainstream media w/o basis, while reports on extreme climate events belong to "science" more... I'd ask to offer more plausible example to highlight the point of media lie/bias. From the OP & such topic as climate emergencies, you'd think, media purely report objective facts & aren't participating in active narrative construction on behalf of interested parties}