Well, you're welcome to believe them if you like but I have it on solid authority from many former senior government officials that none of the major media outlets come anywhere close to providing a complete or accurate picture of events at home or abroad. At best, they say, one can read between the lines to get hints of the real story.
Ask yourself; why would corporations with a vested interest (yes, vested- their major shareholders also own major blocs of defense, Big Pharma, FIRE and energy stocks) in keeping you in the dark turn around and tell you the truth?
Julian Assange is a case in point; the man did nothing but publish completely true information directly from original government sources detailing their corruption and venality in their own words, and yet I'll bet that you're one of the many who will leap at any excuse to smear him instead of paying attention to what he uncovered.
So I'm willing to bet that rather than the truth, you really just want ammunition for your preconceptions and assumptions, the very ones you've been told to have by America's propaganda industrial complex.