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Articles by Bob Garfield

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False Equivalence: How ‘Balance’ Makes the Media Dangerously Dumb
Bob Garfield – The Guardidan, 14 Oct 2013

Let us state this unequivocally: false equivalency – the practice of giving equal media time and space to demonstrably invalid positions for the sake of supposed reportorial balance – is dishonest, pernicious and cowardly.