What balance?

When a journalist publicly declares he doesn’t believe in balance on a particular issue, you know things are really bad. When I was a journalist, I had it beat into me to get both or however many sides of the story there might be. Well, ABC News’ Bill Blakemore (a network reporter!) told an audience at the recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference that he doesn’t “like the word ‘balance’ much at all” in global warming coverage. Blakemore was debating Senate Environment and Public Works communications director, Marc Morano, who reported on the dialogue in today’s Majority Fact of the Day. Seems to me that Blakemore has been hoodwinked by the liberal enviros and he doesn’t even realize it.

Correction: Blakemore made the comments above at a different panel earlier in the day at the SEJ conference, not during the debate panel with Morano.