...there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital.

• Lenin, " The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism "

Not posting this to suggest that this is definitive, but to show that this is how Lenin thought, which is to show how the social sciences (and by extension, the press) have a class character