The Unbalanced Balance 0
David Atkins considers the difficulty media faces in presenting a “balanced” range of opinion in editorial commentary and analysis, or, to put it another way, how persons like David Brooks and Bret Stephens, who are always wrong, manage to hold down jobs.
He suggests that those who employ them a face a dilemma: whether to portray the American right-wing as it is or as they would prefer it to be. Here’s a bit:
He goes on to point out that a similar situation exists as regards liberal commentators, but that it is no nearly so severe.
