The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.
I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.
Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
