>To report on practically any political event, even for a simple factual description of what happened, you have to decide which of a variety of contradictory so

>To report on practically any political event, even for a simple factual description of what happened, you have to decide which of a variety of contradictory sources is correct It would be more like, "This campaign held an event at X location, here's a 90 minute uncut video of the stage" and that's the entire post. No quotes, official statements, no conclusions by reporters, just that it happened with proof. The weather isn't perfect either, but we could strip out 95% of what's in most news reports. It's not completely free from bias, but there's no proof true objectivity exists in journalism. All news is biased against people who reflexively deny the obvious (like the earth is flat). Politics is tricky anyway because people intentionally lie, so you go from trying to sort out bias to actually discovering lies. That kind of reporting cannot be unbiased because you think they're lying and they pretend they're not.