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Via His Virtualness, WindsOfChange has a piece on the nature of argument. Most of it isn't worth the time (because of the subject, Brian Leiter, not the blog), but scroll down a bit and there's an excellent snippet about "wicked problems" and 10 characteristics of them. Add that to Roger Simon's "What is fair and balanced?" and even Nina Totenberg might be able to learn something about broadcasting news and argument instead of one-sided opinion. (Well, okay, that last was a bit of hyperbole. Let's say someone who's outside of or has worked for the Manhattan media for less than three years could learn something about it.)