This breaks down when one half of a two party system goes all-in on lying.

Reality has a left wing bias because reality is fact-based.

To take a "neutral" political position in this environment is to accept blatant lies. Journalism should be a pursuit of truthful information, thus being "neutral' politically is untenable if you want to do actual journalism.

It's true that might not always be the best for your subscriber numbers. But some folks do, actually, care about the truth.

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its_ethan 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think the OP is saying he has an issue with the reporting of facts. I think what he's getting at is that a lot of what passes for news today (especially online) are really just op-eds.

Presenting just the facts is being politically neutral, but only when it's just the facts. Providing commentary on the facts is not. I don't think it's all that crazy to say there's been an obvious left-leaning bias in that regard for the last 10-20 years.

	▲	sjsdaiuasgdia 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Congratulations, you've bought into the fascists' framing. Whenever the media doesn't present the fascists' narrative unchallenged, it's declared that they're being biased. Doesn't matter what the facts are, the accusations still come.