Journalism Bias

When discussing particular morale issues in journalism, it is seemingly impossible to avoid that of journalism bias.Whether you consider yourself to be the most objective writer in the world or not, it's hard to beleive that not everyone has incorporated some sort of bias through there writings at one point or another. It has been one of the most consistent and contraversial areas of journalism to this day. So when it comes to my view on the topic of journalism bias, I simply look at it like this, as human beings we are all victims to our own opinion.
Bias is one of the more common characteristics of personalized and opinionated writing. Now, there are certainly many forms of objective writing but, for the writers of such pieces, it is still difficult for the reader to not extract or absorb some sort of opinion through the writers work. Bias is not always a bad thing, especially in terms of persuasive pieces, you want the reader to agree with you and that bias can help you display a strong level of confidence through your writing which many readers could recognize. However, when journalists begin to seperate fact from opinion it can become a very problematic and misleading situation, especially to those reading and interpreting the material. Now, whether the readers interpret opinionated material as fact or opinion is obviously to their disgression, but there has to be some sort of limit to the amount of bias a writer uses for it to be considered "fair" and accurate journalism. For example, One web site attributes journalism bias to the many pressures a journalist faces throughout their career explaining that, " Journalism is a competitive, deadline-driven profession. Reporters compete among themselves for prime space or air time. News organizations compete for market share and reader/viewer attention. And the 24-hour news cycle--driven by the immediacy of television and the internet--creates a situation in which the job of competing never comes to a rest. Add financial pressures to this mix--the general desire of media groups for profit margins that exceed what's "normal" in many other industries--and you create a bias toward information that can be obtained quickly, easily, and inexpensively." (http://rhetorica.net/bias.htm) I don't know if journalism bias is neccessarily the largest morale issue in the world of journalism, to an extent some types of bias seem only natural. Of course, this is all dependant on what the writing regards and what type of journalism we're talking about.
What I can tell you about journalism bias or bias in general is that i find it is almost impossible to beleive that perfectly objective writing has become the norm in our day and age of journalism. I know it's the goal in most cases, but actually reaching that goal seems to have become the real challenge in journalism today.