{"id":9745,"date":"2011-09-09T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2011-09-09T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:00:28","slug":"unbalanced-is-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9745","title":{"rendered":"Unbalanced is Unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/09\/07\/krugman-shape-of-earth\">&#8216;Shape of the Earth \u2013 Both Sides Have a Point\u2019<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The argument is that the mainstream news media attempts at all costs to appear \u201cbalanced\u201d, by giving both sides of any dispute equal footing \u2014 as opposed to simply trying to report what is actually accurate. Thus, in the debate over climate change, they give undue emphasis to arguments claiming that climate change lacks scientific consensus, when in fact the opposite is true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Shape of the Earth \u2013 Both Sides Have a Point\u2019 The argument is that the mainstream news media attempts at all costs to appear \u201cbalanced\u201d, by giving both sides of any dispute equal footing \u2014 as opposed to simply trying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9745\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}