Truth in Our Times Quotes

“Journalism was hard in a polarized country where people felt the failure to take sides was in and of itself a surrender. I knew that The Times didn’t get it right all the time, that words could both mask and antagonize, and the discussion of what to call things—alt-right or white nationalist, lie or misstatement—kept cycling through the newsroom. Still, I remained a believer in a particular vision of journalism. I believed that there was a place for journalism that told stories without partiality, that followed the facts wherever they led, even if our readers (or our president) didn’t want to be taken there. We needed to tell the truths that we found, no matter how imperfectly we did that, day after day. The alt-right had become the masters of trying to shut down and silence all the voices they found disagreeable. It was not a model I thought we should emulate. The great risk we faced came not in giving them voice but in taking their worst instincts and making them our own. 7 The Leaks Police Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years.”
― David McCraw, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts