Most of the world wants to present a single issue and make you comply with their views. The ‘news’ media and of course the advertising industry don't really want you to think for yourself; from the ‘news’ perspective it means that they might actually have to work hard in order to present information, and from the advertising perspective the whole point is to switch off your critical faculties and accept their version of your needs and resources …
Some pressure against these tendancies has been successful, but in general no-one really wants to have to think, because it's difficult. We now have single-sided information presented along with an obvious strawman, called "presenting Both Sides of the issue".
My problem isn't so much the strawman itself, or the trivial representation even it is given; but the insulting oversimplification that there are only two sides to things.
There are an almost infinite different number of “sides” to an issue; multiple viewpoints for every person touched by something. Telling us that there are just “two sides” is more damaging than simply ignoring the alternatives in the first place …