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Honestly— PBS News Hour. You’re just as likely to see current or former GOP talking heads like Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, or Pat Buchanan as some DNC talk
by chefandy 5y ago
Honestly— PBS News Hour.
You’re just as likely to see current or former GOP talking heads like Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, or Pat Buchanan as some DNC talking head. In fact, scrolling down their page just now, McConnell is the only actual politician I saw interviewed, though they did have a Biden speech clip.
Keep in mind that inviting Political opponents into your show can advance your political message if you lampoon them — but PBS News Hour has about the same ratio of push to pull interviewing politicians, never ever interrupts, and doesn’t ask cheap shot gotcha questions.
They are more likely to choose topics from a loosely mainstream democrat perspective — you’d be more likely to see a story about the ACLU releasing a statement about immigration than a law enforcement agency doing the same, but that sheriff or whatever is going to get equal respect and air time in that segment… and it’s not that extreme of a shift compared to mainstream outlets.
So I firmly believe that they fit the criteria for your specific question. Truthfully I think most people just don’t want that.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoAgreed. News Hour is definitely left leaning but they let people talk and seem to make a genuine effort to provide information. Which is something most other news programs have stopped doing. They just want to produce outrage and conflict. You can listen to CNN, MSNBC or Fox for hours and the only thing you have learned is what you should be angry about. You will have learned nothing about the actual topic.
- dekhn 5y agoI agree; for COVID news, none of those three are even remotely reliable. What disappoints me the most is CNN, they really have no reason to be as useless as they are while also riling up emotions.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoCNN is just terrible. They have turned into the left wing Fox News. They report mainly on opinion, not news.
- dekhn 5y agoI think of HuffPo as the left wing Fox News. CNN is just some sort of thing that evolved from the mentality of TV talk shows.