As someone that’s lived on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, I would say it’s more like see if the water is toxic before you eat the fish. Assuming the fish must be good is asking for problems but it sounds like you just might enjoy diarrhea.

That was entirely the reason I used it and I’m surprised you can’t digest what I’m saying.

It’s not news yet it’s the most popular “news” network on television. Despite poling showing people that watch it are less informed than people that watch no news at all, nothing has been done specifically because it’s serving it’s intended role: misinforming the gullible and setting a lower bar for MSNBC and CNN to be seen as real news instead of telling you how to feel about what you’re told about.

Being selectively informed by a media outlet isn’t the same thing as factual journalism.

One of the huge roles of Fox News is to lower the bar for what’s considered ‘actual’ journalism by different outlets owned by the same billionaire class.

The Overton Window has been shrinking and drifting right for decades. There is no left in the United States. https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2004

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

Viet Nam was very unpopular directly due to front line coverage we don’t really get anymore as a result of Reagan nuking the fairness doctrine and birthing Fox News to drag all other media right filing it with ads and misinformation.

Democrats are not left because “left” starts at identifying capitalism as a net bad rather than net good.

Bro… John Oliver is a comedian and doesn’t consider himself a journalist: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/12/466569047/is-john-olivers-show-journalism-he-says-the-answer-is-simple-no

He’s also not a billionaire nor own the show or the network it’s on.

Like you’re agreeing that the media outlet is under orders to shape the narrative… But then somehow take the individual journalists leaking things they were ordered not to as some perverse reason to still trust the outlet?

I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say as your defense of the American press is a British comedian and an admission a billionaire shapes WaPo’s narratives.

You are all over the map.

I have no issue with journalists, but you’re not going to find them on an entertainment channel. The Washington Post was rubber stamping war profiteering before Bozos bought them.

The majority of outlets are owned by an ever concentrating number of billionaires. Blind trust is the last thing you want to give them.

A huge percentage of the problem is what people think is left.

https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

Hilary was right of Trump, just less authoritarian. The whole caravan spectacle was basically fallout of her time as secretary of state under Obama.

Liberalism coopted equality from socialism. Rainbow capitalism will underpay and shrinkflate all the poors equally in the name of the shareholders.

Conservatism coopted a man being entitled to the sweat of his brow. Profit is what’s left over after reinvesting in the business and wages. Every cut corner of quality and penny of retirement savings denied is more riches for the ruling class. Workers eagerly defend their bosses entitlement to the sweat of their brow.

Media plays the masses that deserve both against itself.

This is as close to factual reporting as we’re likely to see for a minute. This isn’t satire; it’s sociopolitical commentary.