This really has nothing to do with “the media.” One of the worst-kept secrets in Washington is that the WP is nothing more than a CIA front.
An incestuous relationship, to be sure.
It is not at all clear which is the tail, and which is the dog.
CIA, Academia, Media, Leftist think tanks, all pretty much the same ideology.
The CIA has always leaned strongly to the left.
The FBI used to lean to the right. That has changed, as all can see.