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Are MSNBC & Fox News Great Examples That American Media Are No Longer Practicing a Journalistic Principle Well Enough?
That is, even 88% striving to avert journalistic bias.
A recent interview U.S. President Donald Trump did with Fox News host Sean Hannity clearly seemed to show a Hannity/Fox News blunder. We understand that Hannity is a friend of Trump’s. Hannity probably let his bias towards Trump impact his journalistic approach with the president.
It was only a most recent Fox News blunder — the media outlet seems to be a content marketing vehicle for right-leaning thought as much as ever.
And as Fox News is biased towards conservatism, MSNBC is biased towards progressivism.
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That means that two of the three major TV news networks in the United States are fundamentally flawed.
The U.S.’s democratic Republic probably is already doomed. That said, a democratic Republic needs not just journalism, but journalism that 130% seeks to be unbiased.
The relationship between national media like MSNBC and Fox News and America’s salvation?
It’s not sustainable. (And thus, I don’t consume content from either.)
Striving to the utmost to avoid bias while practicing journalism was a key principle I learned in my very first, very most-basic mass communications class (JCOM 1010). (In that class, we watched a documentary exposing Fox News. I remember my raised-Latter-day Saint, raised-Republican, 18-year-old self walking out early.) It’s tragic that it seems clear that talented, veteran journalists do this and that their boss executives encourage it.
Saturday Night Live clearly seems to understand — as of six days ago — that MSNBC is a problem. In this sketch, they criticize coverage by MSNBC. A main focus is that MSNBC (in a reporting sense) chases bombastic statements Trump makes instead of reporting on matters of substance.
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