I Can’t Handle the Truth
Originally published Mar. 30, 2012
William Faulkner once sarcastically commented, “Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
The Nobel Prize laureate had a point: people find different truths from a single set of facts. And here lies the challenge for journalists, fact-checkers, and — for at least one morning session — our J556 Online Seminar class.
Consider this: “the majority of Americans are conservatives.”
That’s what Florida Rep. Sen. Marco Rubio claimed anyway in a speech at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on February 9.
Is it true? Is it even factual? (more…)
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