queeranarchism:

I occasionally get to see the inside of news editing and in the last months I have seen several occasions where opposing perspectives on an issue were edited and the person with the best arguments had all their arguments cut short or left out to ‘create a balanced story’. 

Like, one side was uninformed or using multiple logical fallacies to arrive at their conclusion while the other side had sound arguments and was knowledgeable on the topic. Reality was NOT balanced. But that reality was not shown because a ‘balanced’ story was perceived as a good story. 

Media don’t just write the ‘both sides’ stories, they deliberately cut up perfectly good interviews to achieve it. 

Just saying.