(Seriously? — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Sounding like former President Donald Trump equating people on both sides of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville in 2017, Vincent Bzdek, the executive editor of Republican billionaire Phil Anschutz’s media outlets in Colorado, said earlier this month that he’s “not sure” he sees a distinction among CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
Asked by right-wing KNUS host George Brauchler April 18 if he sees a “distinction between a CNN and MSNBC and Fox,” Vincent Bdzek replied, “I’m not sure I see a distinction.”
“And I think there are, you know, activist kind of journalists on the other side of the equation, and that needs to stop as well, I think,” Bzdek explained on the radio. “And, you know, there’s a lot of like, ‘Well, it’s the truth. And we’re right. And I have moral authority.’ I don’t buy that. You know, that’s not journalists’ jobs. Journalists’ jobs are not to be activists and not to really, you know, get into the story. So I do worry about a double standard here. We’re focused on [Fox News] right now because of the [Dominion] lawsuit. But some of those other people, you know, there’s also some accountability they need as well.”

What kind of journalist isn’t sure Fox News stands alone in spreading falsehoods, lies, and conspiracy theories, and undermining journalism and democracy as we want them to be?
Bzdek is worried about a “double standard?”
Who’s the MSNBC or CNN equivalent of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, or Laura Ingraham? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O’Donnell? CNN’s Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer? It’s laughable to put them in the same paragraph.
Fox News argued to a judge that Carlson was an entertainer, not a journalist, while his colleague Sean Hannity admitted the same, after CNN broke the story of his text exchange with Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in which he asked the Republican how he could help.
Name one story where the level of misinformation gets anywhere near what we regularly see on Fox News. Covid. Insurrection. Conspiracies. Much more.
MSNBC is progressive, and Bzdek expressed concern about its coverage of alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. He’s entitled to that criticism, but seriously? Is MSNBC anywhere near “the other side of the equation” to Fox News?