From driftglass:
For some time now, I have been hearing professional media persons waxing wistful and poetic with some variation of this kind of bosh (not an actual quote):
“There are a ton of super-ooper-duper-awesome journalists at Fox News! A ton of them! And sure they’re angry at how Satan is running the fascist propaganda dungheap where they work, but c’mon man, they gotta work.”
It has happened often enough that I think someone should point out that when you hear such talk, you are not hearing journalists reporting the facts of a story. You are hearing pundit break-room chatter from employees in a very small and fiercely competitive corporate media hiring/firing pool treading very lightly when discussing colleagues across the street but in the same business.