“Their responsibility is to call out lies. If they don’t do that on live television, during the most consequential election in modern history, they are the lesser for it” said Dan Rather.
Because MSM is closer to stenographers than news people. It’s not about getting out facts, it’s about not saying things that are true.
Vance could have said MLK was a Black Hitler and I doubt he would have been fact checked.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-cbs-anchor-dan-rather-030747506.html