They don't need to be "as bad." As another user commented, many of us grew up hearing and knowing that Fox News was biased and agitated their watchers with lies

They don't need to be "as bad." As another user commented, many of us grew up hearing and knowing that Fox News was biased and agitated their watchers with lies and deceit. When I then see the "side" that I associate with, the left-wing press, as it were, using the same tactics, it makes me _much_ angrier than when the right-wing press does it. I expect the right-wing press to pull this bullshit. I expect the left-wing press to be honest. Either I was naive, which is very likely, or they lost the high ground along the way. At any rate, the effect is the same for me. I don't trust them any longer. And, I don't think I'm alone.