He said, she said...

Today's baseball hearings were like a gripping novel that you can't put down. I couldn't stop watching. Secret meetings with nannies, wives taking HGH to look good for a photo shoot... wow, this was like a good nighttime soap. Trying to figure out who's lying and who is telling the truth is like, well, trying to figure out who to vote for. (And gee, did you think some of the Congressmen and women had already made up their minds?)

I have an opinion about who's lying in the Clemens-McNamee case. And no, I'm not going to share it here. Because this is about news, not speculation.

The point it, in any "he said, she said" case, it is imperative that we as journalists strive to be especially objective. In choosing sound bites, it is very easy in a case like this to pick sound bites that can make one side or the other look guilty. Even b-roll can be used to make someone look guilty. Be as fair as possible, give equal time, and let the viewers decide.