Or maybe - just maybe - they report the news without opinion.
Facebook injects opinion into everything by it's very nature. Maybe that's not a good thing.
There is no such thing. Even if only through the selection of events considered "newsworthy", reporting news _always_ implies a particular narrative of the world, and politics is nothing but competing narratives.
What if the articles printed are randomly selected from a pool?
Additionally, I am talking about the content of the articles. News Papers for example already have opinion pieces so the paper as a whole cannot be unbiased.
Additionally it is obvious that a news paper cannot print all of the news and to some extent that betrays a bias, but no one expects a single news source to contain all of the news in the entire world.
My point is that articles themselves are often unbiased, and blanket treatment of media networks as biased is not a fair statement.
Besides the obvious empirical weight of your condescending dismissal I have yet to see any evidence that states it is impossible to report the news without an opinion. In fact, if you open the NYT you will find it divided into sections on opinion and factual news.
Give me some evidence of main stream media reporting opinion with news. Give me a non-opinion piece newspaper article that has opinion.
how about this: some time ago when the news that tortures did not produce any valuable intel to counter terrorism was wildly reported in USA, the Polish media instead run a story about how terrorists were planning attacks in Poland during mayor holidays. See: no real opinion is conveyed here explicitly, but by controlling which and when facts get reported you get the same result as directly stating the opinion (in this case defending the need for doing nasty things to fight terrorism).
When there were only 3 networks, there was less exposure to varying opinions. Over time that has diminished, but I think Facebook is the closest you'll find, given its reach.
