The media represents the views of the ruling class. Were any given journalist to follow her instructions, they'd be fired, as so many on MSNBC have lost their jobs, for getting too close to the truth, for saying "money in politics," was the problem, or questioning the Iraq War, as Donahue fell victim to. If you regularly write "liberal" articles, which in essence is another way to say "true" articles, you'll either find resistance in your editorial staff, and they won't publish them, or you'll eventually just be let-go, because they don't view your content as poignant (to the ideas of the rich).
Everyone here needs to realize, our media is simply the left and right, the rich feel like they want you to see. You won't see the revolution, or revolutionary ideas, not if it isn't on their list of allowed topics. There are filters. You can't speak badly about any advertiser, no matter how true. You can't speak ill of war without end, or huge budgets, and NEVER mention it as a problem with debt. You can't call for a new Fairness Doctrine, because ridding the media of that responsibility was what actually handed the media to the rich. Now they don't even have to "try" to be fair, don't even need to maintain the facade of credibility.
The truth is, once freed from fairness in 1987, they didn't even bother to put on a fake left, until around the early 2000's, when MSNBC seemed to have the idea that we might need at least "some" resistance to the extreme right direction of everything. So began, the fake left. It isn't left through and through, but by God they'll support Abortion--they'll rail against guns, and for gay people. They'll support immigration. The things that affect Bread & Butter issues?--better not. There is a longer list, but generally our media is kept to the right by Chomsky's media filters. If you want to know them, Google them.
It's why all the hoopla of "fake news" and the constant complaining about "social media" as they feel their power to propagandize, slipping away, as people fall away from their viewership. I used to record and watch at least a couple of MSNBC shows. But one by one, my favorites, those who told the truth most often fell away. Olbermann, Cenk Uygur, Dylan, and I just finally gave up on Rachel, as she proved her establishment bias, during this election, though she clearly knew which "third rail" issues to avoid, before the election ever happened. But she was my one remaining worthy watch.
What is left, on television anyway, is censured news, reported by the rich, edited and produce by even richer people, who are hired by even richer people, who own these news outlets. They are anything but liberal, though there is a "small" range of difference, well to the right on the spectrum.
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