All news sources have some political slant. It's simply unavoidable. The fundamental reason for this is that simply by choosing which stories to cover (as well as how much air time / print space to give them), reporters have already exercised their judgment regarding what is and is not "news." Since reporters, like all people, are guided to some degree by their worldviews, the result is some level of bias in all news organizations. Some news outlets do a better job than others of trying to counter this effect and promote "objective" news coverage, while others seem to embrace their slant.

I would argue that the impossibility of completely eliminating bias in reporting is one of the strongest arguments for having free press. The more news outlets there are, the more chance a person has to see all sides of an issue, or to get reporting on all the issues of the day.
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