Healthy Skepticism

“I just don’t know what to think. You would have to know the facts, and I don’t know that I’m getting the facts from the media right now.” 

—Jerre Corrigan, Wisconsin elementary school teacher, in Sabrina Tavernise and Aidan Gardiner, “‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News,” The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Whose facts?

  

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