What you describe is a balancing of bias not even an effort toward objectivity, reporting of observation, and/or fact finding.
It seems to me you have the good sense to know that FOX is bullshit but still couldn't escape the gravity well of their "Fair and Balanced" nonsense and worse have swallowed that punditry is reasonable substitute for reporting. I'm fine with punditry but that shit is for digesting and debating information rather than disseminating it. By allowing all information to come from editorial and editorial from second hand and consequentially filter and controlled sources.
MSNBC is an incorrect answer to the question because the level of partisan balance in talking heads editorializing and/or debating isn't meaningful to objectivity, subject control, and reporting of facts.
If the question was where can I find a balance of beltway partisan opinion if I watch it from 5am-11pm, you'd have a compelling answer.
The meat of the question to use a sports metaphor is where can I find play by play that isn't dominated by the color commentary from wherever along the spectrum. The substance of your answer was that MSNBC has the best balance of commentary though I'll agree that Hall and a few other spots actually lean toward actual news reporting better than most but suffer from pretty much reporting opinions in a balanced fashion because of the big fundamental flaw of little to no reporting.
Maddow is excellent at digging into issues and giving quality editorial that makes facts digestible but the show by nature is not real time world events oriented, it is a political program not geared to presenting the facts before they drive agenda.
I think the best answer is there isn't any and one must actively seek information and dig and mine it from a broad set of sources and then you still will have to rely heavily on logic, discernment, and knowledge to filter it all out.
We are functioning in a corporate dominated system of propaganda and opinion shaping, there is little to no effort being made to inform the populace and some of what is there is a backstop to cope with the reality that information undesirable to that system surfaces and that everyone isn't going to swallow whatever they are fed so they must be controlled and coped with while maintaining the internal consistency of the overall agenda.
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