It isn't per se. But when a media head launches out with obvious mal intent, nay, glee, to destroy someone's career come hell or high water, then there's a problem. Especially before there's a conviction. Maddow isn't even shy about it. She smiles ear to ear, gives cheeky, snarky looks at the camera as she cheerfully alludes that the end game is to see these various guys and gals she's targeted on her show go to prison or jail. And she does this in a very public venue to exact the effect of destroying their career without even a conviction.
No, she is helping lay the groundwork for their eventual conviction, doing what reporters have done for centuries: break news. She did it with a few #BridgeGate stories, Steve Kornacki did it with a few #BridgeGate stories, etc.
It's called journalism.
The fact that she enjoys exposing Right-Wing hypocrisy is irrelevant to the facts she presents.
You know that she is stepping over the line and proclaiming-alluding guilty before a trial is held. With glee and great repetition no less. Which in her type of exposure is tantamount to actively destroying someone's career without cause. A proper exercise of journalism would be to present the facts as they unfold, with a sober demeanor and not cheer on a guilty verdict before an investigation is complete.
I've said it before that her talents are good. But she has a zeal to destroy people that is undeniable. It's a shame because her tenacity would be much better served under a sober restraint instead of coming across like she has rabies.
The point of this exercize is to ask what is lost and what is gained and weigh the two side by side. I've said that she is also human and has things she'd rather not see people publish about her that would destroy her career before there's ever been a fair trial of her. That can be said of anyone really. So why does she get to destroy with impunity in this way while others are expected to maintain restraint in return? Does she believe she is above reproach?