Philadelphia magazine’s research editor, Annie Monjar, on the backlash against Mike Daisey and the importance of fact checking:
What we can take away from this episode is that even today, in 2012, readers still want stories that draw power from honesty and temperance. We can rest a little easier knowing that even as the industry around us buckles, the oft-toed line between truth and speculation does, in fact, still exist, and that someone out there is still taking the time to draw it.
In an interview with Terry Gross and David Remnick, former Washington Post editor Marty Baron offered a dire warning about Trump and the media
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A Tesla water engine. A $1K Tesla e-bike. Low-cost Tesla houses. A robot for surrogate pregnancies. A ‘UFO fighter jet that defies physics.’ All fake.
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The commentators who chastised Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James for political statements seem totally fine with players doing the ‘Trump dance’
