>I disagree. That's effectively how modern journalism works where the news is "objective" by letting each side say its piece. Even that level of objectivity is

>I disagree. That's effectively how modern journalism works where the news is "objective" by letting each side say its piece. Even that level of objectivity is rarely met these days. One advantage of this is that it's easy to mandate and enforce. Honestly, this would probably kill off most false advertising, though. Who would run an advert saying that a candidate had died when on the same advert you could see a response on the same advert from the candidate that he's alive and well? Even subtle lies would be easily countered by giving right of reply. >The fundamental problem is that manufacturing lies takes less effort than explaining the truth. This isn't a new problem and never was. The Spanish didn't destroy the USS Maine. There were no WMDs in Iraq.