Fox News has a markedly conservative editorial bias, and the Times has a markedly liberal one; but look back a hundred years, or a hundred and fifty, and you will see newspapers openly and unrepentantly taking sides in every issue. Claims like "fair and balanced" are laughable, but we are much closer to that ideal than in the past.
However, with the extreme partisanship of modern politics, and the ongoing fragmentation of small news sources and decay of large ones, we may have already passed the moment of greatest media neutrality; people who want to know the "truth" may be in for a long hard winter.
More fools they, for choosing a thankless, unrewarding, and often impossible task.
However, with the extreme partisanship of modern politics, and the ongoing fragmentation of small news sources and decay of large ones, we may have already passed the moment of greatest media neutrality; people who want to know the "truth" may be in for a long hard winter.
More fools they, for choosing a thankless, unrewarding, and often impossible task.