{Political_Views} Great decision by NPR

	Friend, click here to sign the petition thanking National Public Radio for formally disavowing "he said, she said" journalism in favor of journalism that is fair to the truth. Too many news outlets seem to consider it their job to tell the competing sides of any given story, instead of focusing on reporting the truth. No matter how unsupported by the facts one side may be, this widespread "he said, she said" journalism is how, for example, climate change deniers are treated seriously in the media. In a positive move, National Public Radio recently issued new editorial guidelines rejecting this false balance. Disavowing the worst excesses of "he said, she said" journalism, NPR's new code of ethics states that "if the balance of evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we acknowledge it in our reports." This is an important step to curing what has become an endemic plague of false "fairness" in American journalism. Please, click here to sign the petition thanking NPR for this decision. We will send them the signatures. Keep fighting, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos
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