re: #9 Targetpractice

Of course, the other part of it is the journalistic equivalent of Battered Wife Syndrome, as decades of fear of being branded with the scarlet “L” of Liberalism has made the media absolutely afraid to address the reality that we’ve a complete moron in the White House and the only reason the country hasn’t come completely off the rails yet is because the gears of bureaucracy grind so slowly.

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.