Jack - I know it seems like a stretch, but you'd only have to watch one episode of the "Hannity and Colmes Show" to see how this works. Hannity is so far out in right field he's about to fall off the edge of the planet, and Colmes is just a little right of center, then they argue the issues and end up at some point in the middle. They call this "fair and balanced."

                  It's perfectly plausible for two newspapers to do the same thing. Pick two: The Washington Post and the Washington Times, they do it all the time. They don't ever come to any agreement, the the reader is given these two points of view, and neither point of view is in agreement with my own.

                  I might be way out is space: but that's the way it looks to me.