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NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS are not niche. They all ran cover for Biden until the debate made it too obvious. They were not "very critical".
They are, however, extremely critical of anything Trump does.
You can’t ignore scale of bias here.
CNN and Fox don’t come close to canceling each other out because Fox is way to the right and CNN is more subtle. -2 + 4 is not zero.
Similarity Fox viewership is 3 million viewers in primetime vs CNN at 1/6th those numbers.
I wouldn’t say extremely critical of Trump. He brings half of it on himself. Simply reporting what he says and does that makes him look incompetent is not being particularly critical.
The media has been extremely critical of Trump. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not. But impossible to deny the bias.
The media is also extremely critical of shooting yourself in the face.
Is that bias? Or sensible?
A neutral stance isn’t an uncritical stance.
It’s undeserved praise vs undeserved damnation that signifies a non neutral position.
The media is far from neutral. Almost all have a major left bias. Fox has a major right bias.
Not when you look at objective metrics of bias such as sentiment analysis or track time spent on positive vs neutral vs negative coverage of various issues. Of course that’s in relation to US political parties, pick a different ‘center’ and you can get any answer you want for how the media is biased overall.
Objectively FOX isn’t pure propaganda they do include some coverage critical of R politicians and policies. It’s just far less than say CNN spends on coverage critical of D politicians and policies.