One solid victory was when the BBC announced they will no longer follow a pattern of
false balance when dealing with science denial — putting a crank up against the consensus of scientific opinion as if they were equal.
Not exact matches
Gazidis saying that the stories about their cash
balances are
false when it was Arsenal themselves who published the report.
This kind of
false balance becomes a problem
when one side is based on knowledge and the other is merely an opinion, as often occurs
when policy problems intersect with science.
Right
when we think we've achieved the perfect
balance of smoke and depth, we make one
false move and end up looking like a panda.
The DOJ argues that
when a loan with known origination errors is certified by the lender to the FHA, with a subsequent claim submitted by the lender to the FHA after a default, the lender is in violation of the
False Claims Act — because they knew or should have known the loan had defects
when they submitted their certification, and yet still allowed the government to sustain a loss
when the FHA paid out of the loan
balance.
* Contrary to Nisbet's finding, we believe that
false balance in climate reporting persists, especially
when it comes to the debate over costs and benefits of climate action.
For these reasons and others, it is not possible to reach valid and reliable judgments about systematic patterns in news coverage either through anecdotal blogging about specific articles or by a lone individual reading through a population of articles, especially
when the individual has a deep and longstanding commitment to a belief in widespread
false balance.
As discussed at the opening of Chapter 3, the «
balance as bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today
when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that
false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coverage.
The «
balance as bias» thesis from the paper remains frequently cited today
when bloggers, scientists, and others assert that
false balance remains a widespread problem, even among mainstream media.
These types of hostile media perceptions and claims are even more likely the case
when the financial support for a professional blogger depends in part on maintaining the assertion that pervasive
false balance in coverage exists.