News reporting can be fair, however, consciously presenting all sides of an argument in a neutral way. News presents information in an entertaining way. Most of what we know about our culture comes from the media, and the people we listen to have learned most of what they know from the media. Media is the ocean, ideas, information, culture, images are all fish swimming in the ocean. Competition of ideas.
Democracy relies on informed electorate, free flow of ideas, education.
Idea of intellectual freedom. People need freedom to debate, freedom of speech, arrive at truth, best government, through sort of scientific method. Faith in the market .Central idea of our culture, but still controversial. The power of critical thinking. Only limits on press are defamation, obscenity, sedition.