Here's another test. Put yourself between two bitterly opposed groups of people and write a story. If both sides like it, that's ok. If neither side likes it, that's better. But if one side likes it and the other hates it, you've got something fundamentally wrong.
Serious disputes have real content, real complexity, endless ambiguity.
And our job is not to boil all that mess down to a couple of sharp graphs with an obvious conclusion. That would be a disservice to a world where we all long for a simplicity and moral clarity that doesn't exist. What we all need to do is learn to live with the weird complexity of it all. And good journalism can help. Our moral salvation thus lies with our readers.