[AndyJackson]

Malone is a conservative who is committed to making CNN an actual news organization again

Does anyone even know what that looks like anymore? Ever since the election we have listened to NewsMax, but they are so caught up in their own version of fair and balanced that they forget that sometimes facts take you just one place. It's sort of like listening to a debate between Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Cinderalla. It may be fair and balanced but it has nothing to do with reality. For instance, they just don't get the whole Ukraine thing at all. They portray it as a simple tale of good vs evil rather than a modern day gangland war between a bunch of mafia families.

[noiseman]

You make excellent points. This notion of “balance” in reporting viewpoints is fine when the issue being discussed is one that lends itself mostly to subjective opinion. If you’re discussing what the best flavor of ice cream is, then it makes perfect sense to give equal time to various points of view (even though chocolate is indisputably the best). But if you’re discussing an objective fact, such as what the product of 2+2 is, then it makes no sense to give equal time to someone who says it is 4, and someone who says it’s 5.

The key is being able to discern opinion from fact. That seems to be a rare skill in today’s postmodern “truth is relative” society.