Files under General | Sep
27th
As I have said before, my wise and astute friend Andrew Mango, former editor of the BBC South European Service, taught me many years ago that “Facts are sacred, and opinions are free, but the reality, my friends, is that facts are expensive and opinions are cheap.”
Today, I found another way to say the same thing in this quote from Hannah Arendt:
“Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed.”
So, quality journalism is a farce if our print or online newspapers don’t have the resources to find, report, explain, analyze and present the facts.
The rest is garbage.
Propaganda.
Manipulation.
Noise.