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Originally Posted by DeanFL
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Lester Holt - "fairness is overrated". This is downright SCARY
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Nah, what's kinda scary is that you seem to have taken little parts of Mr. Holt's acceptance speech out of context & directly counter to his explanation of what he meant.
"I think it's become clearer that fairness is overrated," he said."Before you run with or tweet that headline, let me explain a bit. The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in. That the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention." (This quote is also directly from the Yahoo! article you linked to in your OP.)
Other parts of the article you quoted, but
didn't highlight, is that he specifically mentioned not giving
"unsupported arguments equal time" and that
"Our duty is to be fair to the truth." Both seem to be pretty important pieces of his speech. Finally, misinformation
should not be a matter of opinion. If there are no demonstrable facts presented, or at least scientific consensus,
then it is opinion.