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The idea that news transport ideologies that need to be evened out is flawed from the get-go.
News must be factual and free of ideology. If you consume news that carry a bias (either way) then it is time to find other news sources.
I'd be curious what country/ies the downvoters are from. This is also how I see it but nobody online ever agrees. I suspect it's a culture thing: most people online aren't from the Netherlands and I can't say if this type of news also exists abroad (Tagesschau seems okay but I haven't looked at it in detail or talked with enough germans about it to say that with any confidence whatsoever, and I've got even less info on other countries)
In NL we of course also have some loonies who call the general news channels leftist propaganda, but overall I don't have the impression that places like NOS spin things one way or another. It's also government-funded which, going by the banners google now shows on publicly-funded youtube channels, probably means American readers of this message think I'm completely brainwashed by my government? Who knows, but then I'd be curious to hear what types of things they ever represented counterfactually
You can be completely factual and still biased by the language you use and what you choose to focus on. Publicly-funded media is great and all, but that's because its bias is obvious and upfront, not because it is unbiased. Attempting to be purely objective leads either to a status quo bias or a "centrist" bias where multiple extremes are presented as being equally valid.