The author keeps doubling down on this interpretation, but I don't know how many of us who saw it in real time will be convinced.
His thinking seems to be that either we accept the MSM as flawed but basically reliable or we're -- oh my stars and garters -- playing "Trump's game"! He seems unaware that, to paraphrase Portia, "The quality …
The author keeps doubling down on this interpretation, but I don't know how many of us who saw it in real time will be convinced.
His thinking seems to be that either we accept the MSM as flawed but basically reliable or we're -- oh my stars and garters -- playing "Trump's game"! He seems unaware that, to paraphrase Portia, "The quality of skepticism is not strained." My lack of trust in the New York Times -- which it has come by honestly over the course of decades, but never more so than now -- doesn't increase my trust in Trump one whit.
This article tries to make the case that lying is somehow virtuous if it’s done to counteract a greater “evil” and especially if the lie is later admitted and “corrected”…
But lies aren’t truths in disguise by virtue of the reason the lie is put forward or by virtue of the interests the lie is intended to serve, but that’s how the MSM thinks..
The author keeps doubling down on this interpretation, but I don't know how many of us who saw it in real time will be convinced.
His thinking seems to be that either we accept the MSM as flawed but basically reliable or we're -- oh my stars and garters -- playing "Trump's game"! He seems unaware that, to paraphrase Portia, "The quality of skepticism is not strained." My lack of trust in the New York Times -- which it has come by honestly over the course of decades, but never more so than now -- doesn't increase my trust in Trump one whit.
Great point…
This article tries to make the case that lying is somehow virtuous if it’s done to counteract a greater “evil” and especially if the lie is later admitted and “corrected”…
But lies aren’t truths in disguise by virtue of the reason the lie is put forward or by virtue of the interests the lie is intended to serve, but that’s how the MSM thinks..