CNN's election-news anchor, previously seen on this blog telling off McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds while also calling him "baby", and criticising the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin by her own campaign, points out the obvious in a New York Times profile:
As journalists, and certainly for me over the last few years, we've gotten overly obsessed with parity, especially when we're covering politics... We kept making sure each candidate got equal time — to the point that it got ridiculous in a way. So when you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right.' And not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot. And I'd be treating the audience like idiots.
And the treating-your-audience-like-idiots market niche, after all, is already taken.
