The Facts and Nothing,But the Facts

“I’d be careful about using the word, ‘lie. “‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead…I think if you start ascribing a moral intent, as it were, to someone by saying that they’ve lied, I think you run the risk that you look like you are, like you’re not being objective.” Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard BakerThis policy “deeply disturbing,” and said that it is incumbent upon Baker to use the word.A lie, is a lie, is a lie, Journalism, as I was taught it, is a process of getting as close to some valid version of the truth as is humanly possible. And one of my definitions of news is information that the powerful don’t want you to know. Dan Rather