QQTOD: Daniel Dale
“President Donald Trump’s legal team made at least three false
claims during Senate impeachment proceedings on Tuesday [21 January 2020], plus two more claims we’ll call misleading.” (CNN “Facts First,” 22 January 2020)
~ Daniel Dale (CNN)
is a Canadian journalist who served as the Toronto
Star’s Washington bureau chief from 2015 to 2019. Dale was hired in
June 2019 as a CNN reporter. Dale now writes a regular “Facts First”
column in CNN Politics.
“A lie can travel
halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
~ Anonymous (although, according to Quote Investigator, the quote is often erroneously
attributed to Mark Twain; however, variations of this quote predate Twain.)
How might the
press better fact check our public servants in real time so that lies do not spread
like wildfire?
How might our
news sources better squash harmful and outright lies without censoring valid
differing arguments?
What
responsibility do we, as individuals, bear in discerning what is true or false?
How can we better select sources dedicated to truth, no matter where truth lands
in the political arena?