NBC reporter Richard Engel describes himself as “basically a pacifist” in a Washington Post profile.

Engel, who is currently covering Iraq, also says, “I think war should be illegal.”

In the same profile, NBC anchor Brian Williams says that Engel “is the most agenda-less person I’ve met in our business, I think, in the past 20 years.”

If a self-proclaimed “pacifist” who thinks “war should be illegal” is what passes for “agenda-less” in the establishment media, then I can understand why reporters deny media bias so fervently. They refuse to see it even when their colleagues admit to it.

And if Engel is “the most agenda-less person” Brian Williams has met in twenty years in the business, what does that say about everyone else in the news media?