Appearing as a guest on Friday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Philip Bump alleged that right-leaning media outlets like Fox News and Breitbart tell “fake things” to their viewers and, in doing so, cause people to disbelieve the “true things” that are discussed by MSNBC and The Washington Post.
This lack of self-awareness of how Bump and his MSNBC friends sound very partisan in their journalistic hot takes came during a discussion of the Los Angeles Times and Time magazine announcing layoffs and the decline of local newspapers. Host Stephanie Ruhle began the segment:
On Tuesday the L.A. Times announced it is laying off more than 100 people. That is over 20 percent of its newsroom. In the last week alone, there have been job cuts at Sports Illustrated and Time and National Geographic. It has been even worse for local newspapers — over 130 closed or merged in…
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