I was reading Time magazine the other day when something that I had heard for the last several years really hit me. Someone had written in complaining about Time's coverage of Donald Trump Junior saying that both sides need to be presented. The presenting of both sides is a recent phenomenon having risen with Fox news who presented a completely different point of view and in many cases completely wrong. Now we have a President who calls out the fake news, the problem is that the organizations that he is calling out get it right more times than they get it wrong, whereas sources that he holds up as accurate are wrong way more than they are right. Which brings us to the problem of presenting both side in a story. What if the other side is completely wrong? Fox said that they were fair and balanced but they never presented the other side, no balance. The hated media would be doing a disservice if they presented as fact both sides of an argument particularly if one side is completely wrong.
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