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In the current political climate,
journalistic false equivalence leads to an insufficiently informed
electorate, because the public is not getting an accurate picture of
what is going on.
Journalists have been suckered into embracing 'balance' and 'neutrality' at all costs.
But the lack of accountability is arguably even worse because it has
the characteristics of a cascade failure. When the media coverage seeks down-the-middle neutrality
despite one party's outlandish conduct, there are no political
consequences for their actions. With no consequences for extremism,
politicians who have succeeded using such conduct have an incentive to
become even more extreme. The more extreme they get, the further the
split-the-difference press has to veer from common sense in order to
avoid taking sides. And so on.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/1/reporting-governmentshutdowndemocracy.html
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