All media sources have bias. Just because it has bias, does not automatically mean that its wrong.

It's not about right or wrong, or truth or a lie. It's about selling advertising. The bottom line is $$$. If the truth gets attention, fine. If not, a lie works too.

Yes. For example the Wall St. Journal’s editorial page is about as far right as Fox or Breitbart. Their hard news reporting is excellent and often undercuts the ridiculousness of its editorial page.

The news should never really be biased. The news should be about facts. If you want to present opinion, I think BOTH SIDES should be represented on an issue, so people can make up their own mind about an issue. too much of news is just an "echo chamber" where everyone on the channel agrees with everyone else's opinion, which in turn, feeds the viewer's confirmation bias so he or she will keep watching that channel! Then the bias turns into propaganda, which is dangerous....

It is impossible to examine facts and not form opinions about said facts. Despite anyone's best efforts, it is nearly impossible to present information without your bias stepping in. I think the important thing to do is acknowledge your bias while presenting information and making a strong effort to give the opposing view so that your presentation is balanced. If you balance your information than the ready doesn't have to know which side you actually fall on, but it is the consumer's responsibility to find both sides of an argument an then make a decision, though information is information and having an opinion on the topic doesn't make it any less informative when providing facts. The issue with "biased" news is the lying.

Everyone has a personal bias, including journalists. A good journalist understands his or her personal bias and makes sure to present an even-handed view of events. Editors and news organizations have a responsibility to ensure that a fair picture of events is presented in perspective. And they also have a responsibility to correct items that they are wrong about in a timely manner.

Everything created by people has bias. A good source of information will try to identify that bias and make it evident.

I agree with the first part.
If there is bias, information is not information, it is opinion.

We rely on MSM for fact based news. not opinion based news..
bias is only reasonable in editorials..
if every story is presented with a bias slant it's no longer news, it's become agenda driven propaganda..
Unfortunately that's current state of both conservative and liberal news in the USA....

Most media sources have bias. The truth is about presenting a full picture, if a biased media source can do that, it would be right. If they pesent partial, but accurate news, they would still be lying.

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics."

Even so called [b]facts[/b] can be biased if reported in a certain way.

EXAMPLE:
[quote]The Chicago Cubs are not having as good a season as they did last year. They won the National League Central division last season but right now sit a game behind Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.[/quote]

[b]FACTS:[/b]
Cubs played .568 ball in 2017
They are currently playing .564 (22-17)

As they say, however, there are [b]ALTERNATIVE FACTS[/b]:

After 39 games last year, the Cubs were at .513 (20-19) and were [i]two[/i] games behind Milwaukee.

So at this point in the season compared to last year they are actually doing [i]better[/i] than last season.

Where may one find factual unslanted news as opposed to opinion which is everything else?

Doesn’t anybody just state what happened, without adding anything to the bare facts?

Disagree. If there’s room for bias, it ceases to be news.

Agree. But such biases should as far as possible be conscious and open. That, for example, is why many people are so critical of the BBC. Not because it is biased - it can’t help but be, and many of its biases are justifiable - but because its employees pretend, perhaps in some cases genuinely believe, that it isn’t.

That's true

If you are a Republican, you think CNN is biased. If you are a Democrat, you think Fox is biased.

It's not professional and proper journalism to interject any personal bias into a journalistic piece. It's just propaganda when it does and therefore not very useful as news.

That said not very much journalism exist these days. It's all short form clickbait opinion pieces for the most part.