Old Media Fails Readers With 'Fake Neutrality,' Says Arianna Huffington

Old Media Fails Readers With 'Fake Neutrality,' Says Arianna Huffington | Threat Level from Wired.com

Chief among her examples was the issue of global warming. But the war in Iraq, and the debate over the teaching of evolution were also presented as objects of her biting, and often hilarious sarcasm.

The weight of the scientific evidence produced by Al Gore simply isn't matched by the rhetoric of lawmakers such as Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Michael Crichton calling it all a fraud, she said.

"The truth is not always to be found by splitting the difference," she said. "The earth is not flat, period. There is no other side to this issue..."