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Scathing rant about CNN
“Fair & Balanced News”
Before that phrase fell into disrepute, its simple meaning was delivery of the news without bias towards a political or personal agenda on the part of the newscaster or the network. It does NOT mean that if you are interviewing someone who just circumnavigated the globe in a hot-air balloon you are duty-bound to grant equal airtime to someone from The Flat Earth Society to explain how the alleged feat is a physical impossibility.
In addition, not ALL news stories are subject to the ‘balance’ issue; to whit, if you are covering yet another Republican money-laundering scandal, you need not ignore the story because you cannot find an equally guilty Democrat. Just sayin’.
“Fair & Balanced News”
Before that phrase fell into disrepute, its simple meaning was delivery of the news without bias towards a political or personal agenda on the part of the newscaster or the network. It does NOT mean that if you are interviewing someone who just circumnavigated the globe in a hot-air balloon you are duty-bound to grant equal airtime to someone from The Flat Earth Society to explain how the alleged feat is a physical impossibility.
In addition, not ALL news stories are subject to the ‘balance’ issue; to whit, if you are covering yet another Republican money-laundering scandal, you need not ignore the story because you cannot find an equally guilty Democrat. Just sayin’.
