Even Bloomberg seems to now acknowledge that perhaps journalists may have been too credulous:
That leaves private, professional media with plenty of homework to do. How did we end up more mistrusted by a large segment of Western readers and viewers than state-funded Sputnik or RT? Did we perhaps follow government narratives too closely and uncritically?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-28/how-russian-propaganda-really-works-in-the-west
Different sides have different propaganda.