JOHNSTON: Can media trust be restored?

JOHNSTON: Can media trust be restored?

“What gets rewarded gets repeated.” That quote, a cardinal rule of behavior change, comes from psychologist James Clear and his 2018 book, “Atomic Habits.” It is no less true of today’s news media. But given the collapse in media trust over the past half-century, as measured by Gallup, is there any hope? Many of us boomers and our elders once habitually turned to CBS’s Walter Cronkite, who concluded every evening news broadcast with his signatur…