I have to wonder - should journalists have to declare their party allegiance?

I'm not sure if it's necessary. After all, Bill O'Reilly doesn't need to declare himself a Republican to know which side he's on.

And if, hypothetically, 51 per cent of reporters declare themselves to be right wing at a certain media outlet, doesn't that mean that everyone will just assume that the entire media outlet is all right wing? And the readers will go to a liberal media outlet if they're liberal and then it'll just be fighting between the right wing and the left wing readers. It might lead news readers to force to declare themselves - "I listen to Radio Right Wing." Or, "I read Newspaper Left."

So what do you people think?

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