Honest News Was Never A Thing

June 24, 2024
Jack R. Noel

We are getting more knowledgeable in a new way, the Internet now carries more information than is contained in any other form. But it’s a special kind of library, it does not have the equivalent of a library’s fiction and nonfiction section. We have to be able to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction so that needs to be fixed.

But news publishing has never specialized in accuracy. Honest News has never been a thing. In the U.S., this mode of “passing on the news” began when printers…