Uncomfortable Truths

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Tweets

“10, 20, 50 years from now, no one seeking to understand our age is going to be searching the tweets that got the most retweets, or the post that got the most likes. They’ll look for the kind of reporting, the smartest investigative journalism that told our story and lifted up the contradictions in our societies, and asked the hard questions and forced people to see the truth even when it was uncomfortable.”  

—Barack Obama, at annual Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, March 28, 2016 

• Editorial Comment: How about really good, historic 140-character Tweet?


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