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" I’m not talking about straight political bias, either liberal or conservative. Instead, I’m talking about things like false equivalence—giving two sides of a dispute equal treatment even when one is clearly telling lies. A fair number of people now refer to this as “views differ on shape of planet,” after the first column in this section, which was written during the 2000 campaign. On the rare occasions when the media don’t engage in bothsidesism, it tends to be because the Very Serious People all agree on something—which happens to be wrong. "

Paul Krugman , Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future


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Paul Krugman quote : I’m not talking about straight political bias, either liberal or conservative. Instead, I’m talking about things like false equivalence—giving two sides of a dispute equal treatment even when one is clearly telling lies. A fair number of people now refer to this as “views differ on shape of planet,” after the first column in this section, which was written during the 2000 campaign. On the rare occasions when the media don’t engage in bothsidesism, it tends to be because the Very Serious People all agree on something—which happens to be wrong.