I thought this best described my own thoughts about the failure of the press to ask relevant follow-up questions in this age where everything is relative. From the Economist:
"From 2004 to 2009 Dan Froomkin wrote a popular column/blog for the online version of the Washington Post. Mr Froomkin was let go by the Post earlier this year. He has since been picked up by the Huffington Post."
Mr Froomkin: Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance.
And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For instance, is it patently obvious that at this point in our history, the leading luminaries on one side of the American political spectrum are considerably less tethered to reality than those on the other side. Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.
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