COMMENTARY BY E.J. DIONNE JR.
For The Media, Shutting Up Is Not An Option
E.J. Dionne Jr.: “When confronted with untruths, all journalists have one and only one choice: to call them what they are. They cannot, without misleading the public, pretend that there are two sides to a purely factual question. Further, they need to avoid vague language about facts being “in dispute” when there is absolutely no question about what the facts are. Partisans might well emphasize some facts over others. But facts themselves aren’t partisan.”
