Reply #6: Some people try.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Here in the UK, the BBC and the Times both have a decent stab at "fair, balanced" news coverage, although obviously neither achieves 100% success.

On the other hand, the papers I actually read are the Guardian, the Economist and the Daily Telegraph, all of which have clear, strong political agendas/biases/slants and make no bones about it. Which, I think, is the best one can hope for - the BBC and the Times are "fair and balanced" in that their slant is near the centre of the UK political spectrum, not in that they have no slant; everyone is standing somewhere.

What I find utterly contemptible about Fox News is what I think you are hinting at - not that it is a right-wing news outlet, but that it pretends not to be. There's nothing wrong with journalism with an agenda, but promoting that agenda *must* be kept separate from reporting the facts, and Fox appears not even to try to do that.