After writing a column supporting a bank bailout, I'm giving the other side "equal time" by including a Web site that argues (second item) against a bank bailout.
That's not equal time. That's posting a link to a rambling article arguing a counter position. Giving true equal time (no "air quotes" required) would be turning over your column for a day for a well-spoken critic to argue against. This post reeks of an undeserved pat of the back.
I've been following your RSS feed, but posts like this make me wonder why.
Your first article talks about bailing out banking institutions. Then for "equal time" you refer to an article that balks bailing out mortgage holders. Bailing out banks and bailing out individual mortgage holders are two separate topics.
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This page contains a single entry by Muhammed El-Hasan published on March 14, 2009 3:31 PM.
Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.
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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.
That's not equal time. That's posting a link to a rambling article arguing a counter position. Giving true equal time (no "air quotes" required) would be turning over your column for a day for a well-spoken critic to argue against. This post reeks of an undeserved pat of the back.
I've been following your RSS feed, but posts like this make me wonder why.
Am I missing something?
Your first article talks about bailing out banking institutions. Then for "equal time" you refer to an article that balks bailing out mortgage holders. Bailing out banks and bailing out individual mortgage holders are two separate topics.