[Angostura]

I was a journalist. The intent here, is reasonable. Whenever you wrote an article with person A claiming a thing, the editor would ask you to 'stand it up'. That involved checking the claim's validity by finding supportive and contrary sources and talking to them. The intent was to then produce a balanced, authorative synthesis.

Unfortunately, with things like climate change, the result tends to be 'false balance'. The BBC recognised this several years ago - but too late.

[Tycho]

If it’s good enough for courts of law, it’s good enough for news reporting.