yes there is absolutely an issue of unconscious bias and I don't doubt it's a universal affliction. But this is why we need journalists to be non-partisan - at

yes there is absolutely an issue of unconscious bias and I don't doubt it's a universal affliction. But this is why we need journalists to be non-partisan - at the moment we only have left- and right- news sources, meaning it's on the reader to piece together the real story by reading both sides, discounting leaps of faith that each side is all too keen to make, then combining whatever remains. Most readers won't do that, which I believe is a huge contributor to polarisation - people who only read left sources become further left and people who only read right sources become further right, and nothing ever seems to be getting better. I would pay a decent subscription fee to a news source that employed people with many differing perspectives to both pick apart the fact-reporting of an article, and to provide a separate opinion piece with explicit demarcations of the writer's political affiliation.