I don't trust anything the media says. At this point they have said explicitly for covid, Ukraine and I believe other situations, that they are not going to tell us anything that would make us question the official narrative.
They have made explicit that their purpose is indoctrination, not information. This has been the case all along, as Noam Chomsky noted in manufacturing consent.
The only information I trust is that coming from certain substack and other independent sources and even then I still read it fairly carefully.
I would hope that any thinking person would take this approach but
Unfortunately many people have the same attitude towards media and officialdom as peasants in the Middle Ages had towards the Catholic Church; belief and unquestioning acceptance, especially towards the medical authorities whom even pre covid they have been terrorized into believing they are totally dependent on, and just as the Catholic Church did then, the forces of power, profit and control use that for their own advantage.