I’ve always been of the opinion that the media and politicians are just people.
No better or worse than anyone else and subject to the same bias - often the term bias is just the way they hide blatant promotion and propaganda of their own views.
They deserve no more credence than any other person and in fact should be held to a higher standard since they are supposed to be holding to some type of journalistic code.
Yes, you are right. The behavior that I find so repulsive is their collective inability to conduct any introspection and inability to admit that biases may in any way affect their reporting.