LA Times: New Angle on “Fair and Balanced”

I appreciate balanced viewpoints in the mainstream media (because balance typically means hearing a conservative viewpoint instead of just the liberal one). However, the LA Times article on the front page yesterday, "North Korea, Without the Rancor,” shows how far out of touch with reality and common sense the newspaper has become. The article is a North Korea propaganda piece with quotes of praise for North Korea from an agent of Kim Jong Il, which the Times was only too happy to publish. The article was simply representing the “North Korean point of view,” according to the Times.

Hugh Hewitt has much more on the subject. He correctly points out,

The trouble is, the "North Korean point of view" is really the "point of view" of a ruthless despot and deserves no more traction in a free press than Hitler's did in 1938. This is "moral equivalence" of the highest order, and a failure of imagination. Demick-Duranty evidently cannot find the time or the courage to report on the chilling conditions within the vast prison camp that is North Korea, but instead doubles down with a another article that will no doubt be well received in Pyongyang as an excellent example of "fair reporting."