Whose Bias?
Unlike newspapers, whose editorial lines are frequently based on the political sympathies of their owners, many broadcast organisations are bound, morally or legally, to be impartial in their coverage of news, and to refrain from expressing opinions.
To those who suffer the excesses of the sillier side of the press (regrettably not confined to the tabloids) it comes as a relief to know that sanity is meant to prevail somewhere. But the difficulty you face as a television reporter is how to keep your audience fully informed about matters of a highly complex and political nature at the same time as maintaining a duty not to take sides.
A complication is the opinion of some in high places that a decision to cover an item is itself evidence ...
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