Recently, I wrote to a reader who felt I did more (fair & balanced) ranting than raving:
Fair & Balanced is the slogan of Faux News. The humorist(?)—Al Franken—used that slogan as the subtitle of his recent polemic: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Faux News threatened to sue Franken for intellectual(?) theft. A cry went out over the Internet to use the term "fair & balanced" in as many sites as possible and make it impossible for Faux News to claim exclusivity. (Paul Newman even got in the act in the NYTimes; he threated to sue the feds for violation of his exclusive rights to HUD.) The more I used fair & balanced, the more I liked it. I like to think of myself as "fair & balanced." Most of my students would characterize me as "unfair & unbalanced." None of my students are aware of the Fair & Balanced Blog. It's my alter-ego. If this be (fair & balanced) rationalization, make the most of it.
Friday, September 12, 2003
Fair & Balanced Sapper?
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