In an interview for the documentary film Broken Media, Chris Hayes—one of the prime-time anchors on MSNBC—admitted that even the most well-intentioned networks and journalists inevitably butt up against the problem of “confirmation bias”: Every media outlet constructs narratives. . . . The problem is when you subvert the complexity and the facts to the dominant story you’re telling. That’s a real danger and it happens all the time—when relevant facts are left out because they don’t fit the narrative thrust of the story you’re trying to tell.13
