The media is just awful. Remember Jon Stewart's explosion on Crossfire, where he blasted them for providing "balance" on an issue at the expense of truth or fact-based argumentation?
When C-SPAN was going to have on a woman who wrote a book about Holocaust deniers, they wanted to provide "balance:"
by bringing on a Holocaust denier!
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C-SPAN's cockeyed version of fairness -- it told Lipstadt that it had bent over backward to ensure its coverage of the presidential election was fair and balanced -- is so mindless that I thought for a moment its producers and I could not be talking about the same thing. This is the "Crossfire" mentality reduced to absurdity, if that's possible. For a book on the evils of slavery, would it counter with someone who thinks it was a benign institution? Why does it feel there is another side to the Holocaust or to Irving's assertion that he was libeled? He was not. He was described to a T.
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What has our media come to, when C-SPAN does something this stupid? Oy.