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« Harper's Versus the Bloggers | Main | The Call of the Entrepreneur » July 22, 2007The Truth Is...Penelope Trunk, a writer for the leftwing The Huffington Post who also writes a regular column for the Boston Globe, says journalists are supposed to misquote people because "the journalist gets paid to tell her own stories," and "journalists who think they are telling 'the truth' don't understand the truth. We each have our own truth." The truth is, Ms. Trunk, that there IS truth and if your "truth" isn't actually true then it is fiction, no matter how badly you want to believe it, and if you intentionally spread fiction as "truth" then you are just a liar. Posted in Journalism & Media
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To me, it is not quite as simple as you make it out to be, nor is it as loose as she would like us to think. It is somewhere in between. Where that "is" is could be debated for eons. You're right, though, to call out Ms. Trunk on a clearly irresponsible piece. And judging by her personal anecdote, it sounds as if she's easily duped. Perhaps she's projecting that property onto her readers? Posted by: joe lance at July 22, 2007 3:34 PMWhat colossal arrogance! Posted by: Mike at July 23, 2007 8:54 AMWhile there may be room for relativism in many fields, journalism probably isn't one of them. I wouldn't be too hard on Trunk in particular, though. It is an arrogant statement, but a lot of other "journalists" think the same thing but haven't voiced that opinion. It's the unspoken relativism that worries me. Posted by: Peter at July 23, 2007 1:54 PMPost a comment
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