This is it, people. This is all they got. All phrasing from a single story in the New York Times today. nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/… Asymmetrical polarization is just too much for the institution as currently led. So they changed it to 50/50 polarization and put it on page one. 
Via @fortboise here is a local columnist In Idaho doing the same thing: turning away from asymmetry to the fiction of a 50-50 world. idahopress.com/opinion/column…
To go deeper into how things got this way in American journalism — where the reality of asymmetric polarization has to be changed into a 50-50 "partisan divide" — here's a podcast I did two days ago with @Mr_Electrico and Blue Gal. It is directly on point. driftglass.blogspot.com/2019/12/profes…
For hope that things will change at @nytpolitics I have nothing to offer. But try Jay's Law of Impeachment Coverage. All news reports and columns anchored in the theme of a 50-50 "partisan divide" should be framed instead as: how did the Republican party arrive at this place?
By the way, the New York Times DOES know that some arguments are so contemptuous of established fact that they cannot be taken seriously — or given the 50-50 treatment — even if they are a mainstream Republican view. This is from 5 years ago. pressthink.org/2015/03/journa…
