CNN Guest Contrasts 'Journalistic' CNN and MSNBC with 'Political Platform' Fox

Ryan Foley | November 26, 2018
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During Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and his panel did their best to paint Fox News as an "unreliable source." They tried to make the argument that there are "two Americas" with "two different news worlds." Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik suggested that the idea of "two Americas" with "two different news worlds" suggests a "misleading" equivalency that the views espoused by on-air personalities on legacy media outlets are just as valid as the views of the hosts on Fox: "one is journalistic information, it's the institutions, the journalistic platforms, best sentence of what's true at that minute and it's intended to give citizens information they can use to make decisions...The information on Trump, on Fox platform, which was founded as a political platform by Roger Ailes, it was not founded as a journalistic institution, it's to promulgate a point of view, an ideology."  Zurawik concluded by saying that "we are trying to tell them facts and what's true, they are selling you a political view, which will include lies if it serves their ends."