It is easy to be a liberal; it's a gutless choice.Why is it the easy way out? Because the one thing that journalism sells is the idea that truth and virute are cheap. All of journalism shamelessly promotes the conceit that journalism is objective. Think what that means! Objectivity is a virtue, and it is arrogant to claim virtue. Yet journalists openly argue that you and I aren't objective, insinuating or saying outright that they are more virtuous than we are.
The people have been bombarded with a tremendous propaganda barrage all their lives, and they accept - many of us accept - the conceit of journalistic objectivity. Yet the truth of the matter is that journalism is simply arrogant and (with its deadline time pressure) superficial. Those are characteristics which lend themselves to negativity and bullying, not of objectivity and virtue.
The First Amendment does not say that journalism is objective; to the contrary it says that the government is not authorized to require that it be so. If anyone wants to claim that journalists are objective, the burden of proof logically falls on them to prove it. It is not for me to have to prove the contrary, they are the ones making the claim and they are the ones to bear the burden of proof.
But of course they won't touch that burden with a ten-foot pole. Because absence of bias is at best an unprovable negative. And because in fact the arrogant negativity of journalism is what defines the so-called "liberal" viewpoint.