“Facts Are What People Think” 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu explores the Trumpling of reality. A snippet:
(Snip anecdote about an email exchange with a reader)
Here’s my plea to the public, Trump supporters and all: Please understand that when reporters push back for the truth, they are not acting out of some pro-Hillary agenda but in defense of transparency. It should be important to everyone, whether or not we agree with certain policies, that decisions taken are based on real facts. In fact, if Trump’s supporters insist he tell the truth, then journalists wouldn’t feel as obligated to do that clean-up work.
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