Not too sure about you, but for me the western media, especially the American media, has zero credibility ! They have lost that over the years with all their very many exaggerations, embellishments and outright lies.
They have a habit /tradition of badmouthing, running down and denigrating any person, group, government or country that the US happens to dislike !
The days of the “western media” reporting the truth are gone, they have evolved into fabricators of stories, most of which are loosely based on occurrences, but not accurate, factual or the whole truth.