The commenters from #3-#8 al make valid points… yet I think you all are missing something.

I believe that prior to Edward R. Murrow and CBS reporting of WWII, nearly all news organizations were TOTALLY biased. You had competing newspapers in cities and these papers had a strong viewpoint and their viewpoints were basically at war with each other. People bought into a viewpoint and bought those papers.

Objective news was a phenomenon from about 1940-1970. During this very short period, a news organization found to be deliberately suppressing part of the story, and being deceitful, would have been ashamed; they couldn’t have done it. Most newspapers were in fact liberal in viewpoint, but by God, they TRIED to be fair.

After 1970, the model began to decay. I believe we have reached its death with the latest campaign, as most newspapers abandoned any remaining pretense at impartiality and threw themselves whole-hog into deliberate, complete support of the Obama campaign.

So in my opinion, we are back to pre-1940 news, which means: completely biased, deliberately completely biased.

And newspapers WILL die, because we can get our bias on the internet for free.