[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Joy Reid joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show's Tuesday installment on CBS and as Colbert tried to learn more about the news industry, Reid claimed that the media is not hard enough on democracy-destroying Republicans.
Reid claimed that the media's supposed timidity in this comes from the fact that, "the media will gravitate towards change and conflict. But the media doesn't want to be in conflict necessarily with the president but the idea of almost like a sports-like conflict between the parties is, kind of, where the media tends to go."