Mark Crispin Miller: How journalistic "balance" is destroying our democracy

Here is a first-class example of how not to serve the public interest. Note how the reporter frames the struggle over DRE machines: as an "already-cantankerous debate" between Two Sides, equally respectable. On one side, there's "a coalition of voting rights activists and prominent computer scientists," arguing against the use of the machines. On the other side, we have.... the manufacturers of said machines, "and many election officials." In between the two are "state officials" trying earnestly "to strike a middle ground."