So I lurk a lot, both keep sane during the week, and to pick up some story ideas. I wanted to make this post a while ago and chickened out, but seeing that post about Maddow fawning over Biden's new dog made me want to try with this account again.
US media is absolutely a big-L Liberal institution. But you'd be surprised how many socialists, or socdems at least, write for smaller and mid-size newsrooms. So AMA about trying to be a reporter with leftist views in a decidedly anti-left racket, or about the inner workings of American news outlets that aren't CNN, MSNBC or Fox.
How does the type of "country the US government hates did an obviously good thing but at what cost?" type of articles get born? Like the majority just accepts that this is a good look for a news site/tv/radio channel/paper?
Some of it is chasing AP and Reuters, who 100% get tips from state department / 3-letter agency sources, but a lot of it is just the unexamined American chauvanism of most outlets. American exceptionalism is a bipartisan feature of the ruling class, who buy the papers, who hire publishers who agree with them, who hire editors who agree with them.