Bill Steigerwald is leaving his position as associate editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review after accepting a buy-out offer from the struggling newspaper. Here’s a revealing little tidbit about the news business from his farewell column:

[E]very journalist and every editor I have ever worked with was helplessly subjective in their politics and in their definition of what news and bias were and were not.

Trust me, big-city daily newspapers don’t go out of their way to achieve ideological diversity. About 90 percent of my work mates over the years were either avowed liberal Democrats or didn’t know it. Reagan Republicans were virtually nonexistent. Until I got to the Trib, I was always the staff’s lonely libertarian.