Monday, January 16, 2017

Fake news: Too important to ignore...

Fake news is nothing new, depending on what you mean by it.

But during the past year - specifically during Donald Trump's election - it has become a cancer in the body politic, growing from an isolated but malignant tumour into a raging, mortal threat.

No hack can witness this without alarm. As a BBC journalist I am required to be politically impartial; but as my distinguished colleague Nick Robinson has argued, I am under no obligation to be impartial about democracy (as against tyranny, for example).

Nor am I under any obligation to be impartial about truth, as against lies. The possibility of truth is a necessary condition for democracy.

Fake news is an assault on truth. Therefore it behoves all right-thinking journalists to combat fake news. Full story...

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