Journalists know what is expected of them. They operate in a tight peer group that is largely approval driven. They talk among themselves and they learn what their friends approve of.
I thought about this the other day while my liberal sister was posting nasty crap about the Pope on facebook. She doesn’t have any personal opinion on the Pope or Catholicism but it did bring waves of praise from her liberal friends when she posted it.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices.” - Adam Smith
. . . and “mainstream” journalists all work for news outlets which belong to the Associated Press. The AP newswire is nothing but a continuous, 24/7 virtual meeting of all the member news organizations. And not for “merriment and diversion,” either.
And it’s a lot deeper than peer pressure. The WH issues stuff and the MSM broadcast it practically verbatim; and the MSM sends articles to the WH for vetting before broadcasting.
The media is just an arm of the leftist revolutionaries. I would not be surprised if some were getting .gov salaries!
They need to swing just as the regular revolutionaries in gov need to swing...
Remember Ceaucescu!
(Waving to minders - ha ha, just joking - all metaphorical and stuff!)