The Future of Facts
As the journalistic priesthood erodes and everyone can become a citizen reporter or commentator, training or regulating all would-be journalists is not the answer. In the end, everyone has to become a better reader – more skeptical and more curious.
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BUDAPEST – At a recent conference of newspaper editors in which I took part, a small crowd gathered to talk about journalism and new media. When I told the group that I had begun my career as a magazine fact-checker, several of them grew misty-eyed, as if someone had told a group of priests about his childhood as an altar boy.