re: #42 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

CNN has made a deliberate move to include the voice of rightwing extremist wingnuts in their broadcast news segments in the belief that this will help them to be seen as centrist and non-biased instead of as part of the “liberal lamestream media.”

No doubt they were mainly influenced by the viewer numbers that Fox News commands, and were hoping to steal some of Fox’s share by emulating them. Unfortunately for them it isn’t working, their market share of the viewing audience continues to decline.

Perhaps as I believe to be true, allowing rightwing pundits a far larger share of air time without any fact checking of those pundit’s quite often less than truthful statements and the almost total lack of expressed counter-point views to their blatant dishonesty has damaged CNNs credibility with the viewrs it already had instead of gaining it new converts.

They certainly aren’t the first news organization to fall for the “equal time must be given to both sides of every issue in order to be fair, even if one of those sides is completely batshit insane,” fallacy of what balanced and intelligent reporting actually means

Why can I never remember the proper name for that fallacy?

Moral Relativism?