I Just Resigned from the Los Angeles Times

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5 points·colinprince··5 comments

Journalist fails to see how left-wing the MSM is. He's proud of criticizing Trump, but likely never criticized Biden or Harris.

While I'm no fan of Trump, if having him back in office leads to more balanced journalism, that is a good thing.

> He's proud of criticizing Trump, but likely never criticized Biden or Harris.

Is that not permitted? I suspect there are one or two people who were proud of criticising Harris who didn't criticise Trump. Are you going to call out them too?

Yes, anyone that claims to be a journalist that blindly supports one side or the other and refuses to report the unbiased facts deserves to be called out.

The reason you don't see much calling out on the right is because the majority of the media doesn't lean that way. It seems you have only a couple large sites/groups (Fox, NYPost) vs. the rest of the MSM.

Fox is proudly larger than all the other cable news outlets combined. Sinclaire pens most local media, Wall Street journal is conservative, Joe Rogan is the largest of all podcasts. What does that leave, the New York Times? How is it we still view the conservative media as not part of the MSM when conservative media dominates the eyeballs and cultural zeitgeist combined? It’s like calling Apple a startup.

Congratulations, conservatives won, we can stop pretending they’re niche now.

The "left wing media" assertion is proven false by NYT,WaPo and LA Times coverage last election cycle. Stop promoting this tired trope.

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