I've often thought about the ability to be impartial when reporting. I was born in the 70's so I cannot comment well on anything before Reagan (I remember Carter but was too young to pay any attention) As long as I can remember there has never been impartial news presentations either in print or on TV. It will always be skewed either right or left depending on the person writing/presenting the information. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
IMHO today's problem is that the MSM presents themselves as being impartial when they are not. If nothing else, the presence of FOX news and the emergence of conservative print media offers a juxtaposition of ideas that highlights the MSM's left wing bias. A good idea to offer true impartiality would be to create a web site like impartiality.com and offer two articles side by side, one from a conservative POV and the other from the liberal POV, and then have commentary on both articles. Only through comparison would a truly well educated, impartial POV be able to be achieved.
I've often thought about the ability to be impartial when reporting. I was born in the 70's so I cannot comment well on anything before Reagan (I remember Carter but was too young to pay any attention) As long as I can remember there has never been impartial news presentations either in print or on TV. It will always be skewed either right or left depending on the person writing/presenting the information. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Some key events may have happened before your time or before you paid it much mind but the historical replays and quotes from some events had to make it into your subconscious.
The way the uber partisan Walter Cronkite (who we were ensured was "the most TRUSTED man in America") declared that the war in Vietnam was now unwinnable.
I was reading in a book of old TV Guide articles about the blowback from the networks' coverage of the 1968 DNC riots in Chicago. The public felt that a sacred trust for objectivity in coverage had been violated. The journalists seemed to have a chip on their shoulders (and complained of getting roughed up by thugs in the convention hall, even Mr. Cronkite).
They wanted to cover the views of Eugene McCarthy's supporters. They went from being the fringe of the Democrat Party to running the ship and the networks in 40 years.
There is no objectivity in reporting today. The memos have come out how they will push for issues and candidates. They editorialize within news stories.