In a world without the MSM, and originally, the modifier would be redundant.
You're either a journalist, or you're not. The left has no journalists. To say the left has no 'honest' journalists is like the saying the desert has no wet water. But alas, today we must call water wet to be clear what we mean, so has the left destroyed truth and mangled the language such that nothing means what it originally meant and most words don't mean anything, or they mean 10 things, depending on how you feel or identify, which amounts to the same thing. For example, there was a time with the verb 'identify' took an object. Now it's reflexive-ish, and that didn't happen on its own, kids.
They are propagandists, not journalists.