Yep! it is disgusting -- and shameful. TV News Stations have become like "National Enquirer" with broadcast power.
I would be very very very impressed if stations would do a more reasonable job of balancing out their transparent bias. Even (gasp) if they had a mechanism to call their own reporters to defend their behavior and their statements.
I recognized there is a near infinitude of opinion...even if the facts are agreed upon (which they never seem to be anymore...and NO thanks to the stations for trying to get to the facts). But when people are given a microphone and say something questionable, they should be QUESTIONED. If a journalist makes a statement as a fact, and can't back it up, they should be publicly HUMILIATED...to encourage them to get their objectivity and act together.
It is a sad, sad, sad world when all the jounalists act as bad, if not worse, than the worst politicians! It degrades the whole of the public dialog, probably worse than anything.
Fox is biased, too, but the bias is balanced out at least a bit. If CNN wants to survive, they have a lot of work to do ON THEMSELVES. They should be drumming out the jerks and idiots who are obviously INCAPABLE of acting professionally and intelligently, perhaps abiding by formal debate standards?
I fear it is a sad reflection on the declining intelligence of the American population that this sort of ersatz "news reporting" and "journalism" has grown so pervasive.
Something like a journalististic "Roberts Rules of Order" would be nice:
"Robert's Rules of Order, often simply referred to as Robert's Rules, is a manual of parliamentary procedure by U.S. Army officer Henry Martyn Robert. "The object of Rules of Order is to assist an assembly to accomplish the work for which it was designed [...] Where there is no law [...] there is the least of real liberty".[1] The term "Robert's Rules of Order" is also used more generically to refer to any of the more recent editions, by various editors and authors, based on any of Robert's original editions, and the term is used more generically in the United States to refer to parliamentary procedure.[2] "
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