It's that damned tendency to substitute "he said, she said" for, you know, actual fairness and balance. Which, done right, would be learning the truth and reporting that.
As Paul Krugman said, if GW Bush said, "The world is flat," the next day the headlines would read, "Opinions differ on shape of earth." I wish the newspapers would "get it," already. I don't understand why NYT reporters go to the CEI, or why their editors let quotes from them into print. The CEI is no more credible than the flat-earthers, and I don't see why any publication which wants to claim intellectual respectability gives them any more ink than the flat-earthers.
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