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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/16/2006 8:07:49 PM
Title: Where has Stanton been for the past 15 years?
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From STEVE LOVELADY: Billie Stanton of the Tucson Citizen writes that "When some talented Denver Post reporters covered an anti-gay referendum later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, their bias showed. Repeatedly I demanded rewrites to give the homophobes' side equal credence."

Let's imagine an Alabama editor in the 1950's writing, "Repeatedly I demanded rewrites to give the Klu Klux Klan's side equal credence."

Or how about "Repeatedly I demanded rewrites to give Hitler's side equal credence."

Where the hell has Billie Stanton been for the past 15 years, during which the most discredited journalism credo in the book has become the premise that "balance" equals truth ?

It is truth that journalism is supposed to be about, not "balance." [Permalink]

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