Washington Post (May 31)
“If congressional Democrats will temper their enthusiasm for impeachment with lucidity about the nation’s needs and their political self-interest, they will understand the self-defeating nature of a foredoomed attempt to remove a president for aesthetic reasons. Such reasons are not trivial but they are insufficient, particularly when almost all congressional Republicans are complicit in, by their silence about, President Trump’s comportment.”
Tags: Complicit, Comportment, Congress, Democrats, Impeachment, Insufficient, Needs, Republicans, Self-defeating, Self-interest, Silence, Trump
CNN (November 26)
“When we use the term ‘fake news’ it is not only self-defeating, it oversimplifies a very complex problem.” The term once “meant something. It described a particular type of website that used the same design templates as professional news websites but its contents were entirely fabricated.” Since being hijacked, fake news is now “used to describe any piece of information that someone else didn’t like.” Instead, we must confront manifold issues surrounding misleading information. “The truth is that there are no easy solutions…. Ultimately, it is only logic and critical thinking which could save us from the trap of manipulation.”
Tags: Critical thinking, Fabricated, Fake news, Logic, Manipulation, Misleading information, Self-defeating, Truth
