Showing posts with label giving equal media time to invalid positions for sake of supposed reportorial balance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giving equal media time to invalid positions for sake of supposed reportorial balance. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2013

False equivalence: how 'balance' makes the media dangerously dumb; Guardian, 10/11/13

Bob Garfield, Guardian; False equivalence: how 'balance' makes the media dangerously dumb: "Let us state this unequivocally: false equivalency – the practice of giving equal media time and space to demonstrably invalid positions for the sake of supposed reportorial balance – is dishonest, pernicious and cowardly."