Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Get Your Balance Elsewhere

One reason why it is easy to attack "the press" or "the media" broadly—and impossible to defend them broadly—is that there is not one set of standards that applies to everybody in the press. Nor can there be. When it comes to newspapers and televised network news, critics demand that they be evenhanded and that all opinion be carefully labeled. But there exists another vast part of the press, highly visible at any newsstand, where being one-sided ("specialized" is the preferred word for it) is the very reason for being. These journals set...

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