Partisan Bias Shot Through Ops at Vanguard and State Street

Late in the last millennium, before the whole of academe had succumbed to virulent partisanship and abandoned even the fig leaf of objectivity, a professor in a journalism course I was taking at the then-admirable University of Richmond made a simple point: bias in reporting occurs not just within stories themselves, but throughout the whole journalistic process. Bias can arise in deciding which stories to cover, in how aggressively to cover them, in which sources to cultivate and how, and so on throughout the whole of the process.