EXCERPT:
MacFARLANE: “And, first of all, I have no idea what these outlets gain by allowing comments on their on their sites. It’s like this reporter took the time to research this, to fact-check, oversight from an editor. And if they got it wrong, then they have to print a retraction — "
MAHER: "What if it's just slanted?"
MacFARLANE: "What if it's what?"
MAHER: "What if it’s just slanted? What if it's not wrong, it’s just slanted. That's what somebody is pointing out in the column."
MacFARLANE: “Then write a letter to the editor. Do your research and formulate your argument."
MAHER: "But that appears a week later."
MacFARLANE: "So what? What’s a week?"
MAHER: "Because by then I'd forgotten it or I don’t see it."
MacFARLANE: “There's this thing we take for granted now, that the journalist who did the work gets to have their piece put on the same shelf as everyone else's spur of the moment to bullsh*t."
MAHER: "You seem to trust journalists more than I do."
MacFARLANE: "I trust certain journalists, yeah."
MAHER: "I do, certain ones I do, not a lot."
MacFARLANE: "Not a lot?"
MAHER: "No. And everything I read, whatever source, it’s only half the truth. They print the narrative, they don't print truth."
MacFARLANE: "That’s a generalization though."
MAHER: "Well, it is, because it's generally true."
(via RealClearPolitics)