Thursday, August 17, 2017

Find Me One Honest Journalist

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I wonder if we Donald Trump should qualify as the 20th or 21st century’s honest man. I suppose we could cheat a little and count him as both. I doubt it actually matters because - as Colonel Nathan Jessup explained -  most people can’t handle the truth.

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They hear only their own truth.

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And denounce anyone who doesn’t agree with it as a denier, liar or worse.

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So even when you find your century’s honest man, many will reject the truth.

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I guess we can’t fault them; when you’ve gone so long without hearing any truth, the real thing is hard to recognize, and even harder to accept.

I leave it to you to ponder whether there is, or ever was, an honest journalist in America. For that search you’ll need more than Diogenes’ lantern.

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