Fair, balanced, and untrue.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Objectivity in journalism - Brief article

I have often lamented the mainstream media's failure to make the GOP's culpability clearer. Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann managed to do just that in a Washington Post op-ed several months ago. "We have no choice," they wrote, "but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party." Since then, Ornstein and Mann have not been invited to any of the three main Sunday-morning talk shows--NBC's Meet the Press, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, or CBS's Face the Nation--to discuss their op-ed or their most recent book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks, which reached the same conclusion about Republican obstructionism.

Dan Froomkin, reporting for the Huffington Post, was the first to point this out, followed by the Plum Line's Greg Sargent and others in the liberal media. Still no morning show invitation, despite the fact that Ornstein and Mann have frequently been guests on...