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.....we honor the responsibility to separate truth from falsehood, which is never more important than when powerful people insist that falsehoods are truths, or that there is no such thing as truth to begin with.
So thats the business were in: the business of journalism. Or, as the 45th president of the United States likes to call us, the disgusting and corrupt media.
Some of you may have noticed that were living through a period in which the executive branch of government is engaged in a systematic effort to create a climate of opinion against the news business.
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George Orwell wrote, To see what is in front of ones nose needs a constant struggle. Danny saw what was in front of his nose.
We each have our obligations to see whats in front of ones nose, whether were reporters, columnists, or anything else. This is the essence of intellectual integrity.
Not to look around, or beyond, or away from the facts, but to look straight at them, to recognize and call them for what they are, nothing more or less. To see things as they are before we re-interpret them into what wed like them to be. To believe in an epistemology that can distinguish between truth and falsity, facts and opinions, evidence and wishes. To defend habits of mind and institutions of society, above all a free press, which preserve that epistemology. To hold fast to a set of intellectual standards and moral convictions that wont waver amid changes of political fashion or tides of unfavorable opinion. To speak the truth irrespective of what it means for our popularity or influence.
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http://time.com/4675860/donald-trump-fake-news-attacks/
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