Most of the “reporters” are Democrat shills.
True - but the reason isn’t that journalism is in the pocket of the Democrats but that the Democrats are in the pocket of the journalists.The reporters and their employers all belong to the same union - it’s called the Associated Press. When formed, the AP had a legitimate-sounding purpose - to conserve bandwidth in the transmission of news nationwide. But it also homogenized journalism. That gave journalism unity and power to pursue its own agenda - which is, naturally, to persuade the public of journalism’s own virtue. Journalism pursues its agenda by zealously criticizing and second guessing the people who don’t merely talk but who work to a bottom line and actually do stuff. And journalism promotes the political party which goes along and gets along with that - and smears politicians who do not.
Journalists have the prudence to avoid labeling themselves “wise,” since that would make them extremely vulnerable to charges of sophistry. But they use the term “objectivity” to exactly the same effect. It is impossible for a person to know that he - or someone he agrees with - is objective, just as it is impossible to know that his own opinion is wise. Only time will reveal that. Claiming otherwise is sophistry.