This clip from the article I mention in the previous post captures an ongoing peeve of mine with the “News” we get today.  The constant “dumbing down” of “the issues”,  and the use of “balance” to cast the hidden opinion as the good guy and the opposing opinion as something else.  And,  the whole assumption that there is “a flip side” that is the alternative to the opinion being forwarded.

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture — Time to Fight Back | | AlterNet

He [Stuart Ewen] attacks the ideology of “objectivity and balance” that has corrupted news, saying that it falsely evokes the scales of justice. He describes the curriculum at most journalism schools as “poison.”