Perry Bacon Jr. Rejects the Suggestion that MSNBC Is the Left-Wing Fox News: MSNBC Has Reporters Like Ken Dilanian

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BACON JR.: "I’m not totally sure that, like, ideologically based media is bad. Like, a lot of countries have left-wing newspapers and right-wing newspapers and so on. I think what Fox News does, which is election denial and so on, is problematic, but I — like, I always reject the analogy between Fox News and MSNBC. MSNBC is a -- is a left-oriented network that has reporters, and you — you just put on a tweet from one of the MSNBC reporters a second ago, Ken Dilanian, I think is his last name. He’s a very reliable person. Like, MSNBC, you know, whatever you think about the sort of ideology of MSNBC, they have fair — that’s a fairly fact-based network, and that is not what FOX’s project is. They’ve had lawsuits about that and so on. It’s like a different — so, it is bad that we have a network like FOX."