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Fact-checking

“We don’t have to search far for reasons why citizens are losing touch with reality. Our information system has been corrupted by talk show hosts who tell tall tales, politicians who concoct self-serving half truths, journalists who orchestrate phony debates, public relations specialists who spin nearly everything imaginable. Sadly, some of them have been at it so for so long that even they can no longer tell fact from fiction.”

 

—Thomas E. Patterson, professor of government and the press, Harvard, “A scarce commodity: Trustworthy and relevant information,” October 2014 

• Editorial Comment: Garbage in, garbage out. Video @ 11.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 
 

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