While agonizing over Trumpian excesses and related media blind spots, some of us Angelenos are still reeling from the LA fires and how they were reported.
“Though other interviewees and a set of on-screen bar graphs pinged the seriousness of rising temperatures everywhere every year, PBS’ reporters/producers failed to bear in on the causes and full impact when canvassing expert opinion, possibly out of concern for “balance.” They thus allowed climate-change denialism to mute what is obvious from the evidence.”
So let’s see, if we want to avoid offending the flat earth society, then to maintain “balance” we must give them the same opportunity to defend their views as the spherical earthers, right?
After all, in the words of the immortal “balanced” headline coined by Paul Krugman, “Views differ on shape of planet.”
“Though other interviewees and a set of on-screen bar graphs pinged the seriousness of rising temperatures everywhere every year, PBS’ reporters/producers failed to bear in on the causes and full impact when canvassing expert opinion, possibly out of concern for “balance.” They thus allowed climate-change denialism to mute what is obvious from the evidence.”
So let’s see, if we want to avoid offending the flat earth society, then to maintain “balance” we must give them the same opportunity to defend their views as the spherical earthers, right?
After all, in the words of the immortal “balanced” headline coined by Paul Krugman, “Views differ on shape of planet.”