I'm including myself in the camp of people who have been duped by the legacy media.
Just like everything else in life, it's easier to trust a source than it is to use our own minds.
Still, the worst thing for me was thinking that the legacy media had only recently gone completely off the rails.
I mean, The New York Times knew about the Ukranian genocide in the 1930s, and chose not to report it because the Soviets were giving their reporters all the wine and prostitutes that they could handle.
Journalists are people. I know a few journalists who I trust, and they're usually poor because they tell the truth and the legacy media won't hire them. I've also met journalists who are lying pieces of shit.