CNN (March 23)
“The thickening legal morass around the President involving the three sex-related lawsuits threatens to deepen his legal exposure and add to the incessant chaos that whirls around the White House.” If the suits “are allowed to go forward they could eventually force the President to provide depositions. Given his demonstrated tendency not to always tell the truth he would potentially risk perjuring himself under oath, thereby taking a case from the civil to the criminal realm.”
Tags: Chaos, Criminal, Depositions, Lawsuits, Legal exposure, Morass, Perjury, Sex, Threat, Trump, Truth
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
Wall Street Journal (November 16)
“Google became the world’s go-to source of information by ranking billions of links from millions of sources. Now, for many queries, the internet giant is presenting itself as the authority on truth by promoting a single search result as the answer.” Many of the results, Google selects, however, “are contentious, improbable or laughably incorrect.”
Tags: Authority, Contentious, Go-to source, Google, Improbable, Incorrect, Laughable, Queries, Ranking, Truth
Newsweek (March 27)
“By almost any measure, last week was a disastrous week for President Donald Trump. Truth seemed to be catching up with the president, but he hasn’t fessed up. Trump’s “disconnection from the truth continues apace…. At this point it’s still a race to see how long the public and dogged reporters will have the energy to keep up at this pace.”
Tags: Disastrous, Disconnection, Energy, Pace, Reporters, Trump, Truth
New York Times (March 6)
“President Trump had no evidence on Saturday morning when he smeared his predecessor, President Barack Obama…. Just contemplate the recklessness — the sheer indifference to truth and the moral authority of the American presidency — revealed here: one president baselessly charging criminality by another, all in a childish Twitter rampage.”
Tags: Childish, Evidence, Indifference, Moral authority, Obama, Rampage, Recklessness, Smear, Trump, Truth, Twitter, U.S.Baseless
Chicago Tribune (January 25)
Donald Trump “is never more certain than when he is completely clueless. The truth is that protection against foreign trade leads away from prosperity and strength. A country that deprives itself of foreign goods is doing to itself what an enemy might try to do in wartime — cut it off from outside commerce. It is volunteering to impoverish itself.”
Tags: Certain, Clueless, Commerce, Foreign trade, Impoverish, Prosperity, Trump, Truth, Wartime
