Media Matters - The thing that used to separate the major partisan news outlets from their more propaganda minded kin like Michael Moore or Dinesh D'Souza was that they at least stuck to reporting the facts with spin. Moving into the staged interviews and edited clips business moves them solidly out of the realm of news into something else entirely.

It wasn't like cable news has ever been a bastion of real journalism. It's been really more of an ethical protection that has prevented this sort of chicanery from becoming the norm. If you want to be correctly informed, cable news is already not in your media diet. If it still is, this should make you realize this is entertainment, not information. It's meant for people who view politics as pro wrestling.