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by Sabinus 596 days ago
That depends on what you mean by 'having a balanced news'. Should reporting present both sides in the same light if the facts support one side more? Does a presidential endorsement from the editorial section of a newspaper corrupt the impartiality of the reporting section of the newspaper?
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> Does a presidential endorsement from the editorial section of a newspaper corrupt the impartiality of the reporting section of the newspaper?

It probably does. If your editor, boss and all your colleagues support candidate X and you come up with a story that hurts candidate X, will you really get to publish it? Will you even try to come up with such a story? I'm not saying it's impossible to get this right, but under the current climate I don't think its possible.