WILL and Ariel Durant's The History of Civilization has a wonderful anecdote: One day, the great Chinese philosopher Shih Teng was consulted by the relatives of a wealthy man who had drowned in the Wei River. His corpse, it seemed, was being held for ransom by the man who had recovered it. “Wait,” Teng advised. “No other family will pay for the body.” 
        Some time later, the man who had found the corpse grew worried and also consulted Teng. “Wait,” he advised the man, “for where else can they obtain the body?” In most newspapers in India these days, this is how columnists go. You have one view on the one hand, and another on the other. Some newspapers in fact have actually started columns called Point and Counterpoint. Take what you like. As for the newspaper's own responsibility to the view being dished out, the argument is that they leave it to the readers’ market.  
        At WSN, readers are not thought of as a market. And variety in columns does not mean “On the one hand...on the other hand” variety. By the way, the ruler of Teng’s state, growing tired of Teng’s equivocations, later had him executed.