Laziness, prejudice and pride are ordinary human failings. As we've seen from the press's treatment of the Gosnell story, they can lead those whose calling is to bear witness to avert their eyes from radical evil. Call it the banality of bias.
That's James Taranto, still hitting it out of the park on his coverage of the non-coverage, belated coverage, reluctant coverage, of the Gosnell murder trial. You should read the whole thing. His reference to the "banality of bias" is a hat tip to "the banality of evil," the subtitle of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
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