There is a difference between "news" and "opinion". There is also a difference between "current affairs" and "news" that by its very nature makes "current affairs" much closer to "opinions".
News and current affairs share one defining feature... that they're not olds but that's pretty much it. They don't even use the same idea of what's old. Current Affairs will probably capture anything within the last month of relevance. It can even be really subtle because it's not event driven. News, on the other hand, demands recency in terms of days... if not hours... and events. It's quite simply not news and never should be seen as news to talk about an event from last week was good or bad. To declare, for instance, the Invasion of Iraq a good thing three months after it happened isn't news. But it might be current affairs. (Although, if you had someone else make such a declaration then it's an event and so news.)
The distinction between current affairs and opinion is even more opaque than iffy questions about "when". The distinction I'm making is that current affairs seeks to contextualise and explore. These aren't the same thing. To take that Iraq Invasion example... a current affairs show would give you a whole bunch of different opinions, show you a whole bunch of different things and probably give an explanation. It may, possibly, even make a judgement about good or bad but the good current affairs show uses the conceit it's not doing that. This is not to say that the programmes don't have a moral stance, aren't pushing the viewer towards a particular value judgement, but that if it's doing so does so subtly. And whatever anyone has ever told you, it's hard to pretend to be something without taking on its essential characteristics. Opinion is just contextualisation. It's only ever there to tell you what something means.
But here's the thing...
Aeritai wrote:And in my opinion I think there isn't that much bias in journalism mostly because when I hear something about biases in news I usually think of Fox News and CNN since those two support a party they are bias when it comes to talking about politics. The news I see like NBC never have any biases unless I never noticed it.
This doesn't sound like it's referring to the news. It sounds like it's talking about contextualisation. You can't give people meanings without using biases because meaning is not an inherent quality. Meaning is an ordering, i.e. an attempt to locate something within a systematic frame of reference. As soon as you see "systematic" the word you have to think about is bias (indeed, systematic deviance is how bias is pretty much defined in statistics). Even the statement "it doesn't mean anything" is a systematic framing... it's merely telling you that there is no frame you can choose to make sense of something: it fits in none of them, not that it transcends all of them.
The news is boring and dry. You can't really do anything else with it. You write and tell it in short paragraphs chosen on the basis of proximity to events. It's possible to systematically select what events to choose but once you're reading something, usually the problem is not bias but inaccuracy. That is to say, if there's anything systematic to worry about it's incompetence. In most cases, headlines should serve you well.
(Hearing a lot of stories about black on black violence or missing white girls is probably a product of editorial selection bias but the bigger issue in this case is that you're reading crime stories to start with (all of them have no meaning). If you want to read about crime you need to read high level crime statistics and ignore all "news" stories about them.)
So... how do we deal with bias in current affairs and opinion? Well, the fault is your own for caring about it. The complaint is metaphorically equivalent to paying to watch a baseball game and then complaining about how you're watching baseball when you get there.
The whole point of both is the presence of bias.To use an example... sometimes there are headlines from NZ sites about Steven Adams and my major response to this is, "I know nothing about basketball, I don't believe you do either and while I do want to contextualise this headline I also don't want to have to become a basketball fan in order that I might do so myself." What do I do in such a situation? I go find somewhere that I do believe knows about basketball. I am, in effect, seeking bias whenever I do this. There's no problem here so why does it suddenly become an issue when I want to know if, say, Trump's incompetent? That's not a rhetorical question... although I do believe it could function as one.