Tom, get off the meds. Media propaganda (how can you call it merely a “bias” when they eat, breath and live it everyday?) is a corrosive, pervasive betrayal of journalistic principles working at the conscious and sub conscious level. It permeates everything they do and is the number one enemy of conservative ideals.
Well, perhaps I didn't phrase my point correctly. What I mean is, media bias has maxxed out; they're not convincing anyone who is not already convinced. They've saturated the market. In fact, they have to keep upping the ante in order to stand still; that's why they are no longer able to hide their bias.
As far as the "corrosive, pervasive betrayal of journalistic principles," well, you can believe in those if you like, and you can also believe in Santa Claus. The media's adherence to "journalistic principles" has always been a figment of their own imaginations, a phrase that they trot out when they give each other awards and when they write obits for each other. The media has always been made up mostly of wannabe hacks, poseurs, and blowhards, and it always will be. I'm talking back to the time of Mark Twain, and probably back to the time of Gutenberg and the printing press. They are a joke; all the more so because they are so unaware of it.
As to their being the "number one enemy of conservative ideals," well, my all my enemies be as moronic and inept.
Journalism never has been more than advertising mixed with opinion mongering. Television journalism, like print journalism, is more interesting in entertaining than informing, but above all, it aims to manipulate.