"objectivity" in the media of the US

Well, after thousands of minutes of thinking about an adequate topic to start my blog with I decided to dedicate this first post to the often-stated objectivity in journalism especially in US journalism. I remember that last semester I learned in one of my journalism seminars that objectivity is one of the most important features to describe the north-atlantic model of journalism (which includes Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and of course as the stereotype of this model the US). As I am convinced that no journalist on earth can ever be totally objective (there is always a little piece of a hidden opinion somewhere in an article, even if it is only a jugmental word) I never believed that of all journalists the US ones should be capable of that. Since last week I finally have evidence that I was right. In one of my journalism seminars we read texts about how some news channels, radio stations and news papers treated Obama during the election campaign. They called him a marxist, a socialist, a fascist and drew connections between him and a "former-terrorist" called Bill Ayers. Everything without backing up their stories with hard facts to prove their claims. Later as I talked to some students from the US it turned out that these media are regarded as conservative, that is to say supporting the Republicans and that there exist liberal media as well. So to me it seems as if the US media system is blatantly subjective. They can even insult politicians without being charged. I´d claim that in Germany a story comparing Angela Merkel to a terrorist or to a fascist would never be published. And if they would the journalist is very likely to face a trial - but I do not want to speculate too much. I think I do have to investigate a little further...
As a start I found a webpage underlining my point that there does not exist anything like objectivity in journalism

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/mythobj.html