Masha Gessen Quotes
Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's as though, he says "A," and we check "A," and it gives it no context. Saying that he's "misstating" is an even worse way of covering it. That's NPR's ridiculous policy of not calling his lies "lies." It's really destructive.
Gessen, Masha. Interview by Brooke Gladstone. On the Media, WNYC, 2017.
The statement follows the structure of and contrasts with the quotation of Sir Henry Wotton regarding Ambassadors.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the former President of the United States, Donald Trump.
