I think the issue is instead the rush to publish. With the internet you have to put something out on a story almost immediately 24/7. Even basic fact checking i

I think the issue is instead the rush to publish. With the internet you have to put something out on a story almost immediately 24/7. Even basic fact checking is a huge time drag when you have less than hours in which to get something out. Political Bias is in my mind largely a side effect: politically charged stories get lots of eyes and getting to them late means missing out on the inevitable flutter of angry and indignant retweets about the story. So loads of political stories get rushed, which means we see a lot of slanted ones (because more are written), and because they were rushed they are missing facts or have incorrect facts.