Yes, many people repeat Gelbspan's line
about reporters giving unfair media balance to crooked skeptic scientists, but it doesn't take much additional digging to see where a Senior Producer at Turner Broadcasting, Teya Ryan, made her case in 1990 with a lengthy opinion in the Society of Environmental Journalists Winter 1990 - 91
newsletter about media balance being «artificial, a matter of giving equal air time or newshole space to dissenting views of questionable merit.