Fair and Balanced

Do you know what I love about the MSM? Their unflagging determination to bring a fair and balanced representation of a controversial issue, namely the recent flap over the Bush administration's wiretaps.

The article by Stewart Powell of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a good example. In it, he only gives a single point of view, referencing James Bamford, who, by his quotes, is clearly against the Bush administration's position. He also implies that the wiretaps are illegal. Powell makes no attempt to quote another 'authority' who can make an argument that the wiretaps are indeed legal. This leaves a reader with the clear impression that the wiretaps are illegal, even though the situation is hazy at best.

As I said before, fair and balanced.