borderline ASB, U.S. liberals and conservatives both acknowledge mass media doing good job?

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We might be more familiar with conservative criticism of the mass media. But there’s been a fair amount of liberal and leftie criticism of “mainstream” media over the years as well.

Please paint me a picture in which both conservatives and liberals perhaps grudgingly acknowledge, Okay, doing a pretty good job. And bonus points for relatively few ASB elements! :openedeyewink:
 
There's no such thing as "the media". If you compare The Republic (which isn't even really left-wing), CNN and FOX News they have little in common.

Besides that, current politics is forbidden.
 
Such a POD is not that difficult. Suppose sensational ("fake") media attacks both parties. The traditional networks (NBC, ABC, CBS), in voluntary observance of the fairness doctrine, counter the negative attacks to both sides. Both parties agree disciplined news media is valid, sensational yellow journalism is not.
 
Culture war kicks off earlier and worse than OTL, but instead of OTL's ongoing slow move towards civil war we see a move towards dutch-style pillarization. You see progressives and conservaives acknowledging their media's role in helping avert a civil war by allowing for pillarization.
 
. . . Besides that, current politics is forbidden.
Okay, let’s go back to the 1990s.

https://fair.org/extra/how-television-sold-the-panama-invasion/

‘ . . . A “public opinion poll” in a country under martial law, conducted by an agency obviously sanctioned by the invading forces, can be expected to come up with such results. . . ’
This is the leftie organization FAIR criticizing the Dec. 20, 1989, U.S. invasion of Panama. And in my judgement, yeah, there’s a lot to criticize.

Their publication is Extra!

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And Fox News has been a giant since at least 2000, and most likely earlier.
 
. . . The traditional networks (NBC, ABC, CBS), in voluntary observance of the fairness doctrine, counter the negative attacks to both sides. . .
I agree the Big 3, plus CNN, could have pushed back much more assertively.

But at the end of the day, maybe the fact is that it’s hard to be both free-wheeling and accurate.
 
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