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‘Balanced’ journalist pushes politician’s lie to prove they don’t have a ‘pro-fact’ bias (chaser.com.au)

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[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

The "other side for balance" thing has been compromised and abused for a long time now. Its not for balance. Its to normalise the extreme views they want to push, making people fall for an appeal to moderation fallacy believing the truth to be somewhere in the middle due to its middle-ness.

If they had a rocket launch happening and brought on a rocket scientist from nasa to discuss it, they wouldn't also bring on a guy who thinks we should cancel they launch because the sky is a giant carpet and the rocket with rip it, for "balance."