There’s a huge number of journalists who participate in two activities.
- Presenting both sides of topics that don’t have both sides. Particularly presenting two sides as equals when they are clearly not equal.
- Repeating direct quotes without providing any context. Especially when the quote is a lie or misleading.
Both of those have the effect of propping up the lie and making it sound equivalent to the truth.
Like other polls in this theme, I suspect the “half” is not a single block, but made of different people each thinking of different organizations as misleading them.
