You missed one thing which entirely discredits your claims of bias in the reporting of the Washington Post et. al.
That spectrum indicates the ideological profile of the audience of those outlets. It has exactly zero to do with the reporting on those outlets.[/quote]
If you maybe read the first page of the study you’d understand how it was performed, but instead you didn’t. The funny thing is it specific talks about how those on classify themselves as far left/liberal are more likely to block or ban someone with an opposing view point. Pretty much exactly what you are trying to do here. Let’s ban fox news because they disagree with my view point.
It talks about how people who describe themselves as liberal get information from more sources while the conservatives tend to get there news from Fox. There’s some graphs for people in the middle of the spectrum and they seem to go Fox about as much as MSNBC.
You see Fox as having some sort of oversized impact because all the hard core conservatives/right go there while the hard liberal/left spreads it around the left leaning sites. I agree that there isn’t a dominate left leaning new network that the left all gathers around but it is what it is. Just because the left doesn’t have a fox news equivalent for their view point doesn’t mean Fox is destroying the country. They just seized on an opportunity of people consuming media with a selection bias. Conservatives wanted a news channel that agreed with their view point and Fox came along and gave it too them.