I always thought one of the respons­ib­il­it­ies of exer­cising judg­ment included an attempt to see the other side, or sides; to recog­nise your pre­ju­dices; weigh them, per­haps; and mit­ig­ate them. Self aware­ness was — and remains, I believe — the best rem­edy to journ­al­istic (and blog­ging) hubris.

Len Downie, Exec Editor of the Wash­ing­ton Post, prac­tised a more extreme method: Con­tinue read­ing →