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I think the only way to avoid bias, if you are truly looking for the truth and not something to feed your own bias, is to get your news from multiple sources.
Go to say CNN and watch their coverage over whatever, and then watch Fox News and see what they say. Somewhere in between the 2 is the truth, it truly is then up to you to decide.
If you read Time or Newsweek then read the US News and World Report and agian compare the spins and decide.
The problem I see is that people don't want to think or depend on 2 or more sources, they want everything balck and white while living in a technicolor world. If you get all your news from 1 source or 1 side then you are going to be totally 1 sided on everything, and you are missing the whole picture.
Hell, every now and then when I am home I may watch 700 Club's news. Just to see aspects I may not have seen before. The only truly good belief and decisions are those that are educated choices that you, and only you, have researched both sides of.
If you choose to vote for Bush/Kerry choose to do so because he represents more of what you want than the other.
In the long run I think bias is needed to some degree to keep the other side honest.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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