This is why MSNBC’s ratings are in the tank: they (admittidly) are not journalists.
*update*
Victor Davis Hanson sums it up so nicely: “In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism. All that was before is now over, as this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.”