How do we cover these issues wherein opinion is extremely polarized but wherein our best judgment is that the truth lies more with one side. In general, the way we cover things is we quote people from one side and the other, and it’s a marketplace of ideas. We let the public decide where the truth lies, but there have been times when that model doesn’t really work—when a tension forms between fairness, in terms of quoting both sides dispassionately, and truth.
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