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To be fair, in Jefferson's time newspapers were overt instruments of a political faction. You started a newspaper to spread your point of view.

We have at least a veneer of nonpartisan purpose to the major newspapers of today, although you can argue they still have a bias. Online news/blogs/etc. are more analogous to the newspapers of the early Republic.

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There is no such thing as no-bias reporting. For every topic reported on by any given publication, several others are ignored, simply because there is not enough time in the day nor is there advertising revenue to report absolutely everything, and we haven't even started on article lengths or story placement.

Those biases were on full display this year, not even bothering with the normal veneer.

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