Should Trump advocates be given airtime on mainstream news channels?

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The article discusses the absence of Trump advocates on mainstream news channels and questions whether they should be given airtime in the name of balance and exploring all perspectives.

If our show is airing on CNN, MSNBC, or one of the network news stations, we likely have a giant hole in our garden of viewpoints. The missing target demographic is the Trump voter, which constitutes a sizable portion of the country. Hardly any of the pundits in regular rotation on those channels would ever endorse Donald Trump for President, even though many of them identify as conservative.

Should we, the producers of this show, break ranks with these norms and put Trump advocates on the air in the name of balance, fairness, and exploring all perspectives? Balance, of course, is a journalistic parlor trick. You can create the appearance of a fairly matched debate without actually giving each side fair weight; one dynamic partisan opinion can feel equal to twenty in opposition. But the relevant political divide in this country right now isn’t conservative versus liberal, or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s Trump versus anti-Trump

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