Somebody wrote: "There has always been competing bias in news reporting since the first broad sheets. "

I do not agree, in the sense that this problem has worsened and worsened over the decades.

Go to the library and read some newspapers from the 1950s: There was a much more crisp separation back then, of the straight news reports versus the editorial opinion columns.

It has been in the past few decades that the two have been blended together more and more and more, for reasons either of poor training/ignorance or else of manipulative/planned propaganda in nature.