So sorry MP...

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  I disagree about FOX news being BAD for the most part. I've watched them all and for domestic news sources, they are much more fair and balanced than MOST other cable news outlets.

  You referenced Tucker Carlson, who I watch regulary. I like his show overall BUT the key here is he, Hannity, Ingraham/Levin, Judge Jeanne and the rest of them make NO bones about being Partisan RIGHT on their shows. They will tell the listener they are OPINION people.

  Brett Baier is the head NEWS anchor. He presents the KNOWN facts and lets the viewer make up their own minds.  You WON'T see him make speculations/accusations on his news show.

  He's often the guest on the OPINION shows and if asked he'll give HIS opinion which in that context is okay to do IMHO.

  You watch the other news outlets. They swing hard to the Left. I don't mind that they do, what I mind is when the so-called "news" people interview guests who are often giving THEIR opinions which the "news" people take and PRESENT as facts because what they hear is how they PERSONALLY feel about the subject/person.

  Watch a WH briefing live as it happens. Forget how you feel about the President. Just listen to the words and the CONTEXT of what he's saying.

Then go to CNN/MSNBC etc and listen to what they TELL you he said. 

  It is more often than not so FAR from what he actually said, the context it was said in, etc you wouldn't even know you had just heard it yourself.

  I wouldn't mind that IF they were presenting themselves as OPINION people rather than straight news people.

  Back in the Cronkite days, you had only a few people, older trusted types who at the end of a broadcast would give THEIR opinion on something.
   They made sure everyone knew it WAS an opinion piece too.

  Nowadays you have 4-5 "news" people, a few guests and they ALL present opinions as facts and the "news" people rarely challenge what the guests say UNLESS the guest is a Conservative.

You watch FOX regularly and they have Liberal guests on ALL the time. They are often challenged BUT for the most part they get a fair chance to speak.

We ALL have the right to our opinion, sometimes we are ACTUALLY qualified based on the subject to give it. The problem is when you present YOUR opinion as being the INDISPUTABLE facts, case closed, based NOT on facts but your biased personal opinion.

  That's why the Liberal news outlets have to RETRACT so many of their headlines. They hear something that confirms THEIR biases and the rush it onto the breaking news. You rarely see that on FOX, because of the NEWS people who keep to the known and VERIFIABLE facts.

  NOTHING makes me angrier than having ANY news source/ so-called journalist "explain" to me that what I just heard someone say ISN'T really what they said and what I thought they meant ISN'T that either.

NPR, The New York Times and WaPo are so LEFT leaning anything they say IMHO opinion has INHERENT bias built right in.

  I see FOX people AND Liberal guest commentators REGULARLY going after President Trump. They get FREE rein in doing it too. They even have LIBERAL commentators like Juan Williams, Donna Brazile and Jessica Tarlov among MANY others going Hard after President Trump.

  I see little of NONE of that on the other media outlets. On TV they shout the Conservative guest down. In PRINT media they twist/misquote/or leave out the WHOLE statement to push their own political/social agenda.

  That's my personal view and I'm far from being alone.

At least this "news" reporter apologized for getting the "facts" wrong. You hardly ever see the PRINT media correct themselves after publishing erroneous stories.

IF they do it's on a BACK page that hardly mitigates the DAMAGE they did by printing a story WITHOUT verifying it just to be first to get a story out.

  I'm not saying the President doesn't say wrong things or dumb things. I'm saying the media often doesn't just fact check him, they turn it into an OPINION piece to push a LIBERAL agenda under the guise of just reporting the facts.

Watch the Richard Jewell movie (Atlanta Bomber) read the actual news and you'll see how the media is QUICK to destroy but very slow to admit they were wrong and make someone whole again IF even possible.

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I'm with you on Voter ID.

I still disagree on Tucker Carlson NOT because what you said was wrong but because HE regularly tells his viewers that he is biased to the right on most things.

I think that's an important distinction for someone in the "news" media to make and for anyone who listens to understand. I expect that if there is a slant to be made, the opinion people like TC are going to the right or maybe to the Libertarian view as he often does.

You find the same kind of knowing distortion on the Left-leaning media as well. Since the media is overwhelmingly Liberal Fox is swimming against the current the majority of the time.

  I watched PBS for years for the nightly news. I loved the McNeil/Lehrer news hour. I thought they were as about as fair/balanced as you could get.

Then they brought in the two women. The tone/tenor went HARD left and I couldn't watch anymore.

  The media has openly acknowledged that 90% or more of the stories they do about this administration are NEGATIVE!

  I get hating President Trump as a person, but how can you give someone a 90% disapproval by your stories when at least 50% of the voters APPROVE of what he's done?

  That disconnect with the voter is why the polls got it all wrong in 2016. The ONLY poll I believe in and trust is the poll the day AFTER the final ballots are cast.
   

In Cronkite's day, news was a public service and a matter of network pride paid for by other programing. Now, due to massive competition for viewers, news programing pays the bills. Advertisers are the customers and we the viewers are the product they are buying.

Hannity and Rush are the highest paid opinion guys and worth their 40 million a year because us-against-them sells especially well to folks who can't tell opinion from facts, or prefer not to for some reason.