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Spider Jerusalem

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12. Which may have something to do with the fact that they're both British

Reply to loyalsister (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:40 PM

Dec 2012

Americans seem to have more of a tendency to be polite and behave as though people spouting utter insanity are perfectly reasonable; as much as anything else you can blame this, I think, on American media's striving for a false sense of "balance" by treating both sides of an argument as equally valid. British news media, particularly British newspapers (which is the background Morgan comes from) don't engage in this sort of idea of "balance"; they take sides and stake out positions on issues.

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