> I can't trust it any more than I can trust other media sources

Do you consider absolutely every single media source the same as every other one?

There are most definitely organizations that have proven to report more accurately than others, and have ethical standards.

"More accurately" is relative and not "perfect accuracy". The "ethical standards" depend on the institutionalized ethics, which you & others may or may not agree with. Alas, we have a generation of reporters who seem more interested in changing the world than objectively reporting on the state thereof; if they want to change it the way you want it changed, you tend to consider it "accurate" and "ethical".

Ethicality is subjective but accuracy is not. It's pretty much impossible to have perfect accuracy but there are some organizations that do provide more accurate news and data than others.

Keeping track of them, unfortunately, seems like a full-time occupation.