Bloomberg's Mark Halperin just compared The New York Times to The Onion

Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin tore into The New York Times on Thursday for its post-election headline, "Democrats, Students, and Foreign Allies Face the Reality of a Trump Presidency." Though Halperin insisted during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe that he thinks The New York Times is a "great institution," he said this headline was more akin to what would appear in the satirical newspaper The Onion.

"Their headline is not 'Disaffected Americans Have A Champion Going To The White House' or 'The Country Votes For Fundamental Change.' The headline is about how disappointed the friends of the people who run The New York Times are about what's happened," Halperin said.

Though The New York Times' election prediction model may have given Donald Trump just a "10 percent chance of winning," Halperin argued "the responsibility of journalists is not to report on their biases, it's to go out and understand the country through the prism of the election."

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Watch Halperin tear into the Times below, starting at the 6-minute mark. Becca Stanek