Despite his lucrative career as a political commentator, Bill OReilly thinks Fusion host Jorge Ramos should play the impartial journalist when it comes to Donald Trumps proposal to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants.

On The OReilly Factor Wednesday, the Fox host asked Ramos, "How can you possibly cover immigration fairly when you're a proponent of allowing them amnesty?"

"You should excuse yourself from it or recuse yourself from it," he added.

While it is indeed a reporters job to be truthful and fair, Ramos told O'Reilly that its unethical to sit idly by in the face of injustice.

Sometimes, as a reporter, you have to take a stand when it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships and human rights, he shot back. What Donald Trump is doing is very dangerous. Hes proposing the largest mass deportation in recent history. And whos going to challenge him?

Thats our job as reporters, Ramos added.

As Ive written before, its hard, if not impossible, for any reporter to be objective -- all journalists bring a worldview to their work. The idea that journalists should be impartial is an invention of corporate media, which requires reporters not to take any stand that would ruffle the feathers of advertisers or limit ones audience.

But "he said, she said" journalism has the ultimate effect of letting those in power off the hook. In the interest of impartiality, scores of objective journalists at legacy media outlets have simply reported on Trumps proposal to deport the entire undocumented population without noting that it would cost between $420 and $620 billion over 20 years, and shrink our GDP by $1.6 trillion . Few but Ramos have challenged Trump on the disastrous proposal.

Journalists who simply transmit information are of less and less use in the age of social media, when politicians can communicate directly with the public and the Internet gives anyone a platform. The role of news organizations is to add value and contextualize news. At the most basic level, that means challenging politicians on ludicrous proposals and standing up for human rights, as Ramos does.