The problem I see with the media is not *bias* (at least, not political bias; there is probably a bias toward people willing to expensively wine and dine them) but rather incompetence and unwillingness to scrutinize themselves–or, indeed, other reporters.
When they make basic reporting mistakes, like relying on a single source, taking a source's words at face value, not double-checking, not looking for alternative points of view, lumping people into groups and ascribing one thought to each...+
...their immediate reaction is not to apologize, offer corrections, or look for ways to improve their reporting, but rather to blame the people who suffer most from their bad reporting for not doing their job for them.
They're also more interested in presenting drama and pseudo-soap opera rather than discovering and presenting the facts. The audience reaction itself becomes the story, based on the assumption that we're so egotistical we only want to hear about ourselves.
@DavidSalo they were right. Someone at “Journalism” school finally heard what P.T. Barnum had to say about people. If people would stop playing into this, that’d be great, but alas.