Media bias is almost impossible to avoid

 Here's a sentence from an Associated Press story about the COVID-19 vaccination program this morning:

West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout…

"Unlikely" signals the writer's assumption that West Virginia is a less than fully successful (backward) state—which may be your assumption too. Or mine. 

But "emerged as a success" would serve just as well in a news story (not as fashionably edgy but clearly just as accurate), avoiding a lazy stereotype.

There's a lot of talk these days about "news literacy" as an attempt to counter disinformation, which is a good thing. But news literacy means skeptical reading not only of things you find questionable, but things you take for granted as well.