it's just that one of them did it first and is distancing itself at a faster rate.
tough to prove and nothing to hang your hat on
both parties, the same
That's the response from someone with a dog in the fight.
If you took the time (you won't) to go back and watch old news, it's right there. Journalists have done this and written articles about it (that you won't read).
Used to be, news organizations, aside from it just being the right thing to do, thought if they provided erroneous, slanted news coverage, people would be outraged and stop watching. Credibility gone. News organization gone.
CNN wasn't some ethics professor....they just wanted to not be wrong, as they had a monopoly on the 24 hour news channel. I guess a kind of monopoly, sure. Then MSNBC and FN hop in the same year. Competition. Great! Not great.
All 3 channels probably realized that all of them reporting the same news the same ways was going to lead to.....nothing, really. CNN was top dog, because they were the original and employed people (as it turns out) on both sides of the isle. Maybe they had the right mix, maybe people just harmlessly read the teleprompter to keep their jobs. I don't know.
But Fox and Mr Murdock decided to do something. Whether it was a experiment to get ratings or to just push an ideology, it doesn't really matter. They said 'screw it' and did something different......report the same news with a conservative spin and fancy graphics. Murdock happily did this and HMMM.....as with many things that work, it was great timing.
Clinton impeached for lying.
Bush II as president.
American attacked by....whoever in the middle east.
Ding ding ding!
Now we can do what we're doing even harder. And while we report the news with a spin, we will tell the viewer we DON'T spin, over and over, until they believe it.
Old president bad. New president good. Whatever middle east country bad (not that it was the one who attacked us).
Viewership up. Up, up, up.
Who do we have reporting these slanted 'news' stories? Let's extract the furthest right-learning people from our competition: CNN. Who's that? How about Greta Van Sustren and Tucker Carlson? MSNBC initially had shows for Michael Savage, Pat Buchanon, and Joe Scarborough. They idiotically tried to be middle-ground as FN got more and more radical.
Anyone who wants to argue with the above, go invent some BS that says otherwise. Yes, since FN decided to be slanted paid off in viewership, MSNBC did as well. CNN has tried to avoid being obsolete. But because FN revealed that WE THE PEOPLE don't give a shit about accurate, prudent journalism. We care about confirmation bias and tribalism.