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When Will the Mainstream Media Stop Rehabbing Ex-Fox News Stars?
Working At Right-Wing Propaganda Network Should Taint Your Journalism Career
Although I write for Medium, I’ve actually worked in the media for about 20 years and had my work published in Salon and Four Four Two, the world’s largest soccer magazine. Having said that, I don’t understand why the mainstream media does things.
Maybe it’s because I live in California, which is considered to be a media backwater, (New York City is the capital of the media.) If you want to be an entertainment star, you move to Los Angeles, but if you want to be a star in news media, you move to New York.
As an outsider to the clubby media centers of Washington, D.C. and New York, I question a lot of the things they do. One of the biggest complaints about the media is the alleged liberal bias. This is a false narrative, as I often explain to people.
The media leans to the right, because many media outlets such as CNN and NBC, are owned by huge corporations. Those…
