Just like GMO is merely a continuation of the manual engineering ("cultivation") that has been going on since the earliest days of human societies, biased media

Just like GMO is merely a continuation of the manual engineering ("cultivation") that has been going on since the earliest days of human societies, biased media is nothing new at all, sadly. Although the Luddites would have you think it's a novel problem, news never where unbiased in the first place. Sure, good journalistic self-control can go a long way in preserving the original information, but that information in itself is biased already. There's another analogy about processed food and processed information here, but it's still a matter of where you can source what you can consume. Buying local means you'll have to abstain from foreign material, which I don't think is an option for many when it comes to news.