I don't want a balanced story, and such 'balance' tends to be struck between reality and what appears to be lunacy. Apologies, I shouldn't have used the word '

I don't want a balanced story, and such 'balance' tends to be struck between reality and what appears to be lunacy. Apologies, I shouldn't have used the word 'balanced' as apparently it has been debased so much by its use in a Fox News slogan that the original meaning has been lost. I didn't mean a sort of false balance which parrots two opposing sides of a political debate, no matter how insane both sides are, I meant the sort of balanced reporting which tries to verify facts, reports not just what was said but what was done, reports and verifies the claims of all parties involved in a dispute, and most importantly tries to see past and acknowledge the very real bias and blind spots of journalists themselves.