In a sane world, she would be fired.
In a sane world, she’d have never been hired in the first place.
The roots are in the “New Journalism” era of the early 1970s. It was always pretty bad, impartiality is a myth. Who started it though? Well - they did. They advertised it, particularly with election coverage.
Reporting of the facts was left by the wayside, in terms of what might be called “advocacy journalism”. It has simply accelerated at a greater clip. Both print and TV news organizations used to be very clear on what or when they believed to be reporting “News” and what they believed to be “Opinion”. Today, the “News” stories often read similar to a junior high book report or a harlequin romance novel.
It started showing insane levels of partisanship during Clinton eta, shifted into overdrive around the time of Bush V. Gore in 2000 and then they ALL dropped Owsley Acid & Bath Salts with a side order of Datura with the selection of Obama. This chick here is just having a Bad Trip.