This is also relevant to non-scientific issues.
Sarcasm: In order to be fair it's necessary to take both sides in to account. That's why any time a child with two fathers is on TV they need to get an anti-homosexuality bigot to complain about how unnatural it is.
For some reason the BBC doesn't tend to do this with race issues.
I just saw this link on a pop-news site.
It's a PDF file showing how good BBC's reporting of science news is in general, but more specifically it reports about the fact that the journalists give far too much credit to arguments from people who have no scientific backing for their argument.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/our_work/science_impartiality/science_impartiality.pdf