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Marc Morano: Courting Mendacity

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Dark_Falcon12/09/2012 5:05:37 pm PST

re: #16 Political Atheist

CNN might be better served to carefully stand up to charges like that. The relative weight of evidence is a perfectly legit reason to admit or illustrate the side with better evidence.

If the topic was a serial killer and we had a prosecutor on one hand and a defense attorney on the other… and the defendant had been caught red handed. Why show 50/50 balance?

The problem is that from a business standpoint standing up to such charges is often a loser, since people who here things from a TV channel that they don’t want to hear tend to react by changing the channel. And the objective is to keep them watching in order to justify charging higher rates to advertisers.