This is something I found as a professional on both sides of reporting. People trust media reports about things they know nothing about, but often are highly critical of reports about things they do know about, signaling that journalists don’t always do a good job of understanding information and communicating that information to a lay audience.
What’s most surprising is that, despite these failures, smart people still tend to trust journalists on the things they don’t know about.
Source: Miscommunication of science: music cognition research in the popular press