“It’s a serious problem for American democracy to have a public forum that is so vulnerable to distortion. Fewer conglomerates control the media, reporters have been fired, news holes are smaller. Reporters are more vulnerable to pressure, and sometimes react by using the short cut of on-one-hand and on-the-other-hand, this faux-balance routine that insulates them against criticism but ends up misleading the public. “So and so says the Earth is round but we found someone who believes the world is flat: You decide for yourself.”

Al Gore