[All] Record Letter: "Running on fumes" PLUS Comment on Media "Balance"

[Robert Milligan]

Hey Paul, good stuff. And besides being members of the "gan" club, I  
didn't realize that we both were also members of the Advocate by  
Comedy Club -- although my sometimes esoteric jokes occasionally  
backfire.

Robert M.

PS: I really appreciate an implication of your letter that the Record  
should demand a high
evidentiary standard of their article writers. Otherwise we could have  
a house of arguments built on sand (propaganda?) pretending to inform.  
The result can be that the (oft ideological) prejudices of readers   
are reinforced instead of helping to enlighten them. I hesitate to  
wonder if the media might be part of a Mushroom Conspiracy when they  
accept opinion articles based on false assumptions supposedly for the  
sake of the shaky media-touted concept of "balance" (which really  
needs to be re-thought)!!  And it was this faulty concept of media  
balance that the media used to justify "balancing" the climate change  
views of reputable scientists with mostly sham "scientists" allegedly  
funded indirectly by oil companies & their friends.
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