Ben Chu and Simon Wren Lewis have both opined on how the broadcast media let us down in their coverage of Patrick Minford's memo as chair of 'Economists for Free Trade'. They make the point that an impression of false balance of competing opinions was created by the juxtaposition of Minford's 'report', and Minford himself, with an interlocutor from the opposing side.
Where does the false balance policy come from…
Ben Chu and Simon Wren Lewis have both opined on how the broadcast media let us down in their coverage of Patrick Minford's memo as chair of 'Economists for Free Trade'. They make the point that an impression of false balance of competing opinions was created by the juxtaposition of Minford's 'report', and Minford himself, with an interlocutor from the opposing side.