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.
So you ever get pushback from businesses or cops if you report on them in an unflattering way?
Oh yeah, big time. Almost lost my job once over stepping on the wrong small business owner - and ad space buyer's - toes.
I once had a guy call into a talk show to talk shit about the sponsor and one of the station leads (read: one of the people that all the boomers know and love because they hear from them almost every day) got on the phone with the guy to bitch him out, then said if he ever wanted to be able to call again he needed to go on and apologize on air. Someone also once said the n word on air, but the reaction to that was less severe