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A Question of Balance

It’s time for our news media to adopt a new standard for fairness in reporting. Current standards call for balance. This means that if the media reports a claim made by a partisan group, fairness dictates that they report the views of opposing groups. But how does this play out in a world where we are rolling pell-mell towards a collision with Mother Nature? Most people are having a tough time coming to grips with the idea that instead of creating a better world for our children we are despoiling our planet, leaving our descendants without the natural resources we enjoyed and with an unpredictable climate in which they will struggle to survive. Read the rest of this entry »