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The First Amendment doesn't require journalism to be fair, balanced, objective, wise, or have any other virtue. In fact, just the opposite - the First Amendment requires the government to keep hands off of print journalism (and book publishers as well) no matter how unfair, unbalanced, unobjective, or unwise the government may suppose a given print journalism to be. The First Amendment codifies the right to be, by the lights of any administration, wrong.

Indeed,

newspapers sponsored by Hamilton and Jefferson were the heart of the first political parties.
the party of big government is in fact the party of self-proclaimed objectivity.
The party of big government is the party of the rich.
The party of "objective" big journalism masquerades as the party of the little guy.
All that is protected by the First Amendment. It is egregious for the government to be allowed to favor the party of big government, which is precisely what PBS/NPR, all other broadcast journalisms except explicitly conservative ones (talk radio), and "Campaign Finance Reform" do.
I saw Herman Cain (sp?) on C-Span last night, and he bemoaned the difficulty of raising money for his recent Senate run - noting that he could have easily gotten the money from big donors if that had been allowed. Instead the (black) political outsider was excluded from the process.

The point, Keller wrote, "is not that we should begin recruiting reporters and editors for their political outlook; it is part of our professional code that we keep our political views out of the paper.

. . . and the fact that you think you possibly could - never mind think that you actually do - " keep our political views out of the paper" is sufficient to assure that you in fact project insufferably selfrighteous leftism.
O'Sullivan's Law
John O'Sullivan, columnist and former editor of National Review offers this proposed Sullivan's First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right wing will over time become left wing."

The point is that we want a range of experience. We have a recruiting committee that tracks promising outside candidates, and that committee has already begun to consider ways to enrich the variety of backgrounds of our reporters and editors.

But that fails to work in practice, for the simple reason that you are recruiting "good" journalists - and your idea of a good journalist is the root of the problem, recruit them in whatever city and of whatever color you will. Journalism is superficial because of its deadlines, negative because of its imperative to attract attention, and arrogant because it believes in its own virtue ("objectivity").
Arrogant, superficial negativity is cynicism. When you are cynical yourself, and you are trying to hire good cynics, it's remarkably unilikely that you will hire people who are not leftists.
Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base
Editor and Publisher ^ | 06/26/05 | E&P Staff