When reading media coverage, always determine whether you're reading a news article or an opinion piece. News articles are the result of research and investigation; these articles report the facts. Opinion pieces, often called editorials or columns, are just that: opinions.
A.G. Sulzberger, the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of the New York Times, described journalistic independence in a May 2023 essay for the Columbia Journalism Review:
"Independence asks reporters to adopt a posture of searching, rather than knowing. It demands that we reflect the world as it is, not the world as we may wish it to be. It requires journalists to be willing to exonerate someone deemed a villain or interrogate someone regarded as a hero. It insists on sharing what we learn—fully and fairly—regardless of whom it may upset or what the political consequences might be. Independence calls for plainly stating the facts, even if they appear to favor one side of a dispute. And it calls for carefully conveying ambiguity and debate in the more frequent cases where the facts are unclear or their interpretation is under reasonable dispute, letting readers grasp and process the uncertainty for themselves."