re: #11 Anymouse

And years of FOX News Channel insisting to its viewers, and reich-wing and Christian hate radio all claiming the media is liberally-biased, means that the both-siderism isn’t going to work anyway.

The New York Times isn’t going to win conservative readers by giving a platform to a climate change denier. MSNBC is not going to win conservative viewers by hiring people like Greta Van Sursten.

They will sacrifice their audiences on the altar of magic balance fairyism though.

The truly sad part is this desperate ploy is being spun (in part as a defense mechanism) into some true blossoming of liberalism by giving “both sides” a platform to argue their case. As we saw this past weekend, all that does is give the people who already are trying desperately to keep some measure of faith in the media the final straw they need to call it quits. “Free speech” is now being twisted into a battle cry of privileged assholes who can’t accept that their readers don’t want to pay to be told they’re idiots for buying into the climate change “hoax.”