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Objective Journalism: Oxymoron Allegations of a liberal media bias have plagued journalists for years. Journalists have been crying "foul" for the last thirty years against those who would throw the bias flag. Through the development of more and more sophisticated mass communications, the news has become an immediate chronological record of society: our hopes, speed, progress, problems, joys, and disasters. Yet through the eyes of partisan journalists, the news, at best, provides a shallow and vague view of society. The typical nightly news covers only a fraction of the thousands of events that happen daily and the news highlights drama over reality, popularity over social significance, and comfortable repetitive reporting over insightful analysis. The question remains: how is it that something so superficial and paltry be so incredibly fundamental to our day-to-day lives? (Bennett 14) In this essay I will prove that bias in journalism does exist and that it always will. I will prove that it is not a "liberal" or "conservative" bias, but rather it is human nature. Through the media's choice of what to cover as news, I will demonstrate that objectivity will never couple with journalism. Objectivity is impossible