Lib journalists and reporters always deny political bias yet they don’t question the many flaws in Obama that the press failed to look into. They even had a president that used the Oval Office as a sex room. Press could give a hoot.
Press COULDN’T give a hoot.
Journalists know (If it bleeds, it leads) that they are negative. Thus, for a journalist to claim objectivity is tantamount to claiming that negativity is objectivity. There is one small problem with such a claim; the conceit that negativity is objectivity is quite workable as definition of cynicism.Journalism is cynical about society. But as Thomas Paine makes clear in the first paragraphs of Common Sense, government" is not a synonym for society. "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . Any criticism of society will function as an occasion for a there oughta be a law response. So skepticism about society is inversely proportional to skepticism about government.
An American conservative is skeptical enough about society to believe in the necessity of some government, but is skeptical about government as well, and wants it strictly limited. That is a middle ground, temperate position. Socialism, precisely as objective journalism, is cynical about society and naive about government.
Journalists have, however, lightened up on claiming objectivity since the advent of Donald Trump as a Republican leader. They are frothing at the mouth too much to maintain the imposture.