[wrs]

The idea that issues have exactly two sides, and that all words that come out of anyone’s mouth should be treated exactly equally whether or not they make sense or have any backing evidence, is a bad thing. Journalism has to have a fact-checking, filtering, and prioritizing function, or else it’s just Twitter.

Not that anyone’s doing a good job of that right now, but it seems like that’s what the author is advocatig for.

From a business perspective the fatal flaw is that the customers don’t really want to read something close to the “truth”, they just want to hear their own preconceptions, or the deliberately uninformed statements of their favorite politician celebrities, repeated back.