“The words that William Safire penned and that Spiro Agnew mouthed actually had enormous impact that has lasted until this day. They helped foster among conservatives and the folks that Nixon called ‘the silent majority’ a growing mistrust of the mainstream media, a mistrust that grew over two generations into a form of hatred. It also started a dangerous spiral of events — journalists started bending backwards to kowtow to their conservative critics, beginning in the time of Reagan, an ill-advised shift that did not win back a single reader or viewer on the right. Instead, it caused a lot of folks on the left and even the center to wonder why the national media had stopped doing its job, stopped questioning authority.”

http://politicaldictionary.com/words/nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/

focus on serving the interests of the remaining 70% of the country, nearly all of whom despise donnie at this point.

personally, i would hope for actually fair and objective factual reporting, but it might actually be in their commercial interest to lean to the left and leave the right-wing nuts to foxnews.

now, i'm not actually advocating a "liberal bias" to the media, but given the premise here, it might actually make commercial sense.

That's what's scary. At least one third not only exclusively listens to RW hate propaganda full of bald faced lies, but also will avoid like the plauge all media that dares to say otherwise.
And the kicker is that they are conditioned to think that that is how liberals do it. Just exchange RW with LW.