Wednesday’s PBS News Hour segment posed as an even-handed examination of declining trust in the news media, setting up Fox News on the right matching MSNBC on the left as both being to blame. But veteran reporter Judy Woodruff’s framing of bias, as a problem only for cable news and its opinion-heavy political coverage, leaves out the constant bias that occurs on those presumed bastions of objectivity, the Big Three broadcast networks, not to mention PBS and CNN.
Anchor Geoff Bennett introduced the segment.
Woodruff first talked to Republican Jeri Levasseur, a retired nurse who watches Fox News and Newsmax and occasionally CNN.
CNN, PBS, BBC, and MSNBC? Quite a liberal media diet.
But Woodruff ignored the main reason Democrats were more likely to trust more outlets — most are pro-Democrat in their coverage. There may be a “wider range of sources,” but they certainly don’t…
