https://chaser.com.au/general-news/balanced-journalist-pushes-politicians-lie-to-prove-they-dont-have-a-pro-fact-bias/
"Why would anyone ever think that a politician would be anything other than completely honest and upfront?"
"Now that we've heard from a respected expert in this field, let's balance things out by listening to an idiot."
The "other side for balance" thing has been compromised and abused for a long time now. Its not for balance. Its to normalise the extreme views they want to push, making people fall for an appeal to moderation fallacy believing the truth to be somewhere in the middle due to its middle-ness.
If they had a rocket launch happening and brought on a rocket scientist from nasa to discuss it, they wouldn't also bring on a guy who thinks we should cancel they launch because the sky is a giant carpet and the rocket with rip it, for "balance."
The internet needs a tag or top leveldomain for comedy and/or satire sites. They are too believable.
Perhaps easier and better mark factual sites.
Just 'how' many 'quotation' 'marks' do you 'need' to get 'your' 'satire' across.
I get that you can't exactly just throw a /s at the end of your headline, but this has the same energy as a political comic with nouns written on literally everything.
I don’t know, but “twice” appears to be the amount it takes to get you worked up and ranting.