Just another reminder …
By definition, there’s bias in the media. Even such fundamental issues as what stories you do and do not cover and how you cover them constitute ‘bias.’
But that’s how things were for much of the last generation or four.
What the Dominion lawsuit revealed about Fox News is what many of us long suspected: it’s not limited to bias and lies of omission (what they don’t tell their viewers). Their willingness to outright lie … about The Most Consequential Issues In Recent Memory … is inarguable.
From the top down, they decided that their viewers are too fragile and too intellectually insecure to be accurately informed, that the truth might put them off, and have instead decided that this new dishonesty model is perfectly fine with the company, too: revenue first, last, and only.
It is a disaster on far too many levels to count. It has arguably caused more insidious and deleterious harm to the US than the opioid crisis.
But … late-night comedians have said mean things about Donald Trump, his administration, and his supporters.