Wdtabor wrote:

That bias is not so much by reporting untruth but by their choice of
what IS news.

This is the first time I agree with you. Of course, "their" can stand
for everything.

... their actual newscasts are quite balanced.

Here, my agreement already finishes. (Again, no matter what "their"
stands for.) There is no such thing as a balanced view. Every view is
biased by definition. Hence there is no such thing a balanced choice of
news. More to the point, there even is no such thing as an absolute truth.

Liberals (I mean, true liberals) tend to know this. After all, this is
the core of the word "liberal", or at least was, before it has been
politically abused.

Stefan