Media bias or reader bias?

This piece in Vanity Fair is interesting. Some highlights:

This is not an argument at all for moral equivalency between Breitbart and, say, The Washington Post. That would be ludicrous, but all media organizations are grappling with changing audience expectations and demands. As Emma Rollerwrote recently in The New York Times,“The strongest bias in American politics is not a liberal bias or a conservative bias; it is a confirmation bias, or the urge to believe only things that confirm what you already believe to be true.”

And this…

Don’t mistake me for some traditionalist harrumphing that the media is not the way it used to be in the good old days. We had partisan media long before we had objective media. And Trump is an affront to American democracy and common decency, and if this is the price to pay for keeping him out of the White House, so be it. But there is most certainly a price to pay. The next time Fox News or Breitbart caterwaul about media bias, the claim will have substantially more bite to it.

I’m old (and old-fashioned) enough to remember when journalism students, at least, were taught that their job was to observe and report, not working to put anyone in or keep them out of the White House. I sympathize with the desire to keep someone they view as a monster from becoming president, but it’s still bias to assume that they and only they get to decide which candidate is the monster.