Thing is objectivity can't be reached and Lehrer's says it : the only thing yyou can do is try and be fair.
It's a big misconception that medias were objective before. Newspapers have always had political leanings (clear and revendicated as the identity of the magazine) and that just never stopped.
To say a media isn't objective with their political coverage is actually the norm and what should be expected.
Now if a media trumps a fact in favor of an argument in a paper that explain science, that's wrong. But actually I don't think any media does that (never on purpose. And mistakes usually are corrected).
To say a media isn't objective with their political coverage is actually the norm and what should be expected.
I think that depends where in the world you live.
In the UK all news broadcasters are required to be neutral and objective by law. They aren't and the relevant regulator is MIA, probably because it's staffed with people who agree with the broadcaster's biases. But it's certainly not the norm there that "people" say media isn't objective. Lots of people still like to claim the BBC at least is objective, despite reams of retired or former journalists going on record to say it isn't.
It clearly describes the spread of the disease in the US, including cited quotations from officials at the CDC and other health experts. It provides some useful additional facts about other similar diseases, and projections about how this disease could spread. Seems objective to me.
[1](https://bbcwatch.org/)
[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC)