MSNBC Anchor: ‘Our Job’ Is To ‘Control Exactly What People Think’

Although I agree in general with the gist of your article and that the media is owned by companies that are knee deep in politics and manipulations, her sentence can be interpreted in many ways.

"And that, that is our job.” yes, it could be interpreted as meaning that journalists are here to control how readers and viewers see the news. Journalists and the news media industry has done a good job at that on both sides. It could also be argued that she meant, they (journalists) are supposed to bring us impartial news so that we can make up our minds. It's a thin interpretation, but one that will surely be raised in her defense.

If that's a slip of the tong, it's a well measured and p[lanned one that can be interpreted to mean many things.

In the meantime, and as a journalist, that industry needs to wake up and have real journalist stand up, ideally independent of companies and start going back to presenting the news in an impartial manner, not the way MSNBC and Fox does it, or recreates it. That's why many of us don't pay attention to mainstream news media outlets and will continue to follow independent sources and journalists.