Quote, unquote: Truth and the nutbar

"The new key to success has been to not alienate anyone. To not be controversial. Combine that with the 'objectivity' doctrine drilled into J-school students beginning in the 1960s. Which was compounded by the media's inflated sense of its power after Watergate, and accompanying self-imposed mandate of being extraordinarily fair. The result has been the 'on-the-one-hand, on-the-other' journalism