The truth must lie somewhere in between.

Actually, I was talking about the way average people (who don't run for anything and don't think they have time to investigate) usually talk about politics the way we talk about team sports, and spend whatever time they think about politics rooting for "our" side. One of the many downsides of that "approach" is that a…

One of the sad truths is that revoking access is an effective enough tool that a more official version of press censorship isn't necessary for the American corporate media. Of course, that doesn't explain how Infowars keeps getting credentialed…

There's just so many shades of wrong with the "pick a side and dig a trench" approach that you'll have to forgive us for missing a few on the first pass.

Bless you.

Which begs the question: If people only want their opinions reinforced, is the obligation of the newsroom to give them exactly that and nothing more? Or is it to give them a thing that they'd rather not hear but desperately need to, whether they'll ever admit it or not?

Hey buddy, I got 15 just like every other member of my family.

Sorry, that was supposed to be a broader "you" than it came out. Not you, but youuuuu (as I point in six directions at once).

If Jon is your One True Journalist, there are thousands of current events bloggers who don't give a shit about whether a story even has a proper first source, let alone a second, who would like to be your next Dalai Lama.

Sorry, but no.

Excuse me, I'm just going to rest this pistol against my temple while I wait for the answer.

HEY…

It IS nostalgia night. Already we have a reunion between Dan Akyroyd and his season 1 mustache.

No, what I'm saying is that Fox News doesn't give a shit about integrity when etc etc. Yeah, I messed up and used ambiguous grammar. Don't make it any weirder than it already is.

I hope I never get tired of hearing that joke.

You can only hit your head against a brick wall for so many years before you realize that all you've got to show for it is a concussion.

You're also assuming that nobody's ever tried. People have called out FNC on their stupid tricks for a long time, but they (e: meaning Fox News) honestly don't give a shit as long as the ratings and the ad revenue are there. In fact, I'm pretty sure Glenn Beck got bounced because no respectable advertiser would touch…

The Platonic ideal of a news org is that whether the news is good or bad, it should always be presented as honestly and objectively as possible. As far as I'm concerned, that's the standard. Any news org that puts ideological purity tests ahead of that fails in the fundamentals. Opinion shows are held to a different…

The people we trust and respect SHOULD be held to higher standards than the ones we don't because we expect them to know better.

The only way I could make it all the way through BoaN was when they ran it as part of the History Channel's Reel to Real series, where they would run a film and a panel would debate a film's historical accurateness at each ad break. Obviously they had a lot to talk about with this one.