CMV: The DNC is correct to exclude Fox News from hosting a democratic primary debate.

News sources are not unbiased; both from a psycholigical and a business standpoint.

Journalists tend to almost always have a biased towards the left simply because the type of people that self-select themselves into journalism positions are the types of people who want to "save the world / help people / uncover corruption / fight "the man" and typically are people whose worldviews tend to align with the left.

From a business standpoint, the market has shifted to mirror what is happening online: the so-called siloing off of people into echo chambers where everyone agrees with everyone else.

The networks have a direct financial nterest in ensuring that you are properly outraged about whatever because that is the only hope they really have of keeping your attention. In the modern era they have a whole lot more competition for your attention than they used to from things like social media, video games, streaming movies and TV, etc...

The days of non-biased (or what we thought was non-biased) news are long gone.

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