How Journalists Persuade Themselves to Lie, and even to Denounce the Truth - a Warning from History

The faintly ludicrous and shouty journalist John Sweeney has been attacking me on Twitter for comparing the behaviour of modern journalists, over the poison gas scandal, with that of the Moscow-based correspondents who in 1933 consciously lied about the truthful reports of Stalin's famine by Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge, so killing the story.

 

Mr Sweeney seems to think he is the owner of this story, thanks to various things he has written and broadcast about it, but I do not...