So I lurk a lot, both keep sane during the week, and to pick up some story ideas. I wanted to make this post a while ago and chickened out, but seeing that post about Maddow fawning over Biden's new dog made me want to try with this account again.
US media is absolutely a big-L Liberal institution. But you'd be surprised how many socialists, or socdems at least, write for smaller and mid-size newsrooms. So AMA about trying to be a reporter with leftist views in a decidedly anti-left racket, or about the inner workings of American news outlets that aren't CNN, MSNBC or Fox.
What's an example of a story that starts pointed but gets defanged?
Once wrote an article about a guy who got charged with assaulting a cop because as he was getting arrested on a DUI he accidentally stepped on the cop's foot. What I wrote wasn't flattering to the cop, who has a history of complaints against him. My language about "John Doe getting criminal battery for scuffing a cop's kicks" got changed to "local man was given a criminal battery charge on top of his DUI charge after police reported he tried to stomp on their feet."
I would ask what is to be done but we already know :lenin-shining:
spoiler
Armed proletarian revolution