And there never have been! We are all biased, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. I am biased in favor of Christian doctrine and conservative politics; I believe God's will to be found in the teachings of the Bible, and I want my government, to the extent it doesn't get in the way of God, to follow Aristotle and Locke. Everything I say and write reflects this bias. If every media source admitted its bias as I have just admitted mine, then there would be no problem with bias in the media--there would be bias in the media as there always is and always has been, but there would be no problem, because the audience would know up front what the bias was, and listen/read/view accordingly.
Actually, the media ( first the press, then radio) was always biased. And they were proud of that bias. In many communities the newspapers were the mouth pieces of the local power base. As the modes of media became more national, things started getting more “mainstream.”
The concept of a fair and unbiased media is a relatively recent thing—since the introduction of national media. You don’t make money pissing off half of your viewership.
I really chuckle sometimes when the sheeple complain about the media as if there is some constitutional basis for being fair. It’s exactly the opposite.
Most people in the U.S. are so poorly educated they have no idea about history, and they are force fed such crap I am amazed that they can function.