Journalism holds power accountable
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jan 17, 2018
2 minutes
I was wrong.
Years ago, people used to ask me what journalists should do to combat the nation's drift toward "factish" and "truthy" logic. What was needed, I'd reply with misplaced confidence, is robust fact-checking. If news media were more aggressive in calling people out for lying, I predicted, they'd be less likely to do so with impunity.
Well, in the
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