Neutrality doesn’t mean portraying both political sides as equally good or equally right. It means portraying them as they are. Sometimes both sides deserve an equal share of praise or blame, in which case neutral media would report on that parallel. But when one side is behaving worse than the other side, neutral coverage portrays exactly that. Depicting both sides as equal when they’re not (aka “bothsidesism”) is not neutral, but is biased toward “presenting the sides as equal.”
