Media are mandated to balance both sides of a story, no?

Tommy Douglas is lionized by media as a great Canadian, though he once advocated work camps for unwed mothers. It was no momentary slip; the former NDP leader wrote a 35-page paper on the trouble with Canadians of low IQ and those he deemed morally "defective." Nor was it a schoolboy indiscretion...

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