Like so many of the stories you encounter in NextDraft, you’d never know about today’s lead without the relentless efforts of investigative journalists who often risk life and limb to uncover the truth. But, like all journalists, they’ve been under a relentless barrage of attacks, and those attacks work. Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead. These are dream poll results for would-be authoritarians.