I certainly never meant to mislead Phil, nor did I mislead him,
I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by any means a vehicle for people to slip their personal opinions into the newspaper.