Amazing, isn't it?
I'll give those double WOWs right back for the nifty little either/or false dichotomy you've created there. Excellence in Journalism Awards aren't given out because they do or do not present a political point of view. In fact, a story presenting the "liberal side" is equally as unlikely to get an award as a story that presents the "conservative side" in the reporting. In order to be considered as Excellent in Journalism the reporting must meet certain criteria. And no, sorry to disappoint you, but "being liberal" isn't one of them.
People who want the truth from their news sources will look at those sources with skepticism. People who want to hear whatever makes them feel better will not, and they will even go as far as making an emotional investment in that source, and will defend it irrationally (as you are doing here and have done in the past). An emotional investment in a news source makes about as much sense as having an emotional investment in a particular brand of motor oil.
Back in the days before cable news we had, basically, ABC, NBC and CBS as our primary news sources. At that time you could watch all three networks report the same exact story, and each one of them would report the story differently. That's because each reporter (or team) investigated the story using their own sources and getting their own independent confirmations. Today things are very different. You watch the news same story on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox and they are all interchangeable, giving you the same facts presented in the same way. The only time they vary even a little bit is when they stray from the Five Ws and give you opinion, or tell you what to think of the story. This is not excellence in journalism, it's mediocre journalism at best.
You think Fox News is all that and a bag o' chips because you agree with their bias and because they're popular. That's fine. But it ain't excellent journalism. And that's a fact.
