Uhhhhhhhh
yeahNO..
Television news in the USA is a consumer product.
Has been since the mid to late 80's.
TV news organizations these days are tasked with creating a "product" which APPEALS to a targeted consumer base.
If you like Chevy's, they're not about to sell you a Ford. If you like Fords, they're not going to try to sell you a donkey.
If you like chocolate, they're not going to try to sell you escargot.
If you like wolves, they're not out to sell you tangerines.
And that's an EXCELLENT way to pursue the consumer base, get ratings, and make a nice profit.
Unfortunately it is very detrimental to piddling little things like objectivity, impartiality, accuracy, ethical standards and journalistic integrity.
Since Fox News Channel is by far the #1 cable news outlet in the country, it's pretty obvious that NO, the media is NOT mostly on the LEFT, it's mostly on the side of Fox News Channel, and Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is about four steps to the RIGHT of Fox.
Sinclair may eventually take the #1 spot FROM Fox, by the way, if they ever decide to start a cable news channel.
Since they already own 73% LOCAL market penetration on individual stations, putting a signal up on a bird is a matter of writing a check and flipping a switch and BLAMMO, Dish, Direct and all the cable companies would be carrying SBG.
The takeover for #1 would probably be almost overnight.
That leaves the REST of TV news media, which occupy #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc etc, to go after the remaining consumer base which is looking for something else. And THOSE outlets ALSO "create product" which they know is proven to appeal to a base.
That is NOT the right way to do hard news at all, as it turns out, but it IS the PROFITABLE way to sell "news product", which is sometimes referred to derisively as "infotainment".
And, also...as it turns out, one of the news "PRODUCTS" which sells THE MOST ON the NUMBER ONE TV news outlet in the country (Fox News) is the meme about how "
most media is on the Left".
Exact same process also works on AM talk radio - see Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, etc etc.
https://www.debatepolitics.com/bias-in-the-media/307762-tv-news-consumer-product-not-public-service.html