Everyone knows that journalists are supposed to tell all sides of a story objectively, but what about other writers in the same company? ABC dipped into the autism controversy in its new series Eli Stone, in which a lawyer represents the mother of an autistic child in a suit against a vaccine manufacturer. Not that there's anything wrong with an entertainment program taking on a controversial issue; the problem is that the program made no attempt to present both sides, and doctors worried that parents might decide not to vaccinate their children after watching it. Is Eli Stone bound by the same standards of fairness as the news branch of its parent company? If not, how do we draw the line for the plethora of "infotainment" programs on both network and cable TV?
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