Take a look at this response to the Mallaby editorial in the Washington Post. The editorial is about the importance of trust and how CEOs and our political leaders have eroded it. I think the general point of the editorial is fine, and it’s worth reading.

Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings takes a look at one part of the editorial that is troublesome. In the editorial he commits the one journalistic sin that drives me insane. He forms this false balance by implying that both Democrats and Republicans have been more negative than usual in their ads. The idea is absurd, and Hilzoy lays out why. Go read it.