The problem so much of the media seems not to consider is the last line of the excerpt. “I’ve never engaged much in media criticism, because it’s almost too obvious. Yes, the mainstream media is liberal and biased. But at least in the past, that bias was largely a function of insularity. Most reporters weren’t even fully aware they were prejudiced politically; everyone they worked and socialized with held the same left-of-center views.”
How can any reporter after the last 4 years claim that the LSM are not biased? Is there anyone in a position of power in any of their organizations with an interest in maintaining an appearance of impartiality?
I think the mass media has become a cult with a Dunning-Kruger effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
They don’t know what they don’t know.