Thursday, January 14, 2021

‘A Truth Reckoning’

Announcement: If you hire former Trump Administration press secretaries, “Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”

“In this time of transition — and pain — reinvigorating democracy requires a reckoning. A truth reckoning. Starting with the people paid by the People to inform the People.” . . .

“[W]e need to return to a standard of truth when it comes to how the government communicates with the governed.”

—Randall Lane, Forbes magazine chief content officer and editor, “A Truth Reckoning: Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied for Trump Accountable,” Forbes, Jan. 7, 2021.

 

Editorial Comment: They were true alternative facts.

 

 

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