We're not sure whether Aaron Sorkin started the trend or whether he saw it early on and capitalized on it with the TV series The Newsroom.
Either way, reporters are pressing politicians to actually answer the questions put to them, and not evade or sidestep or muddy the issue with half truths, ignored truths, irrelevant information, or outright lies.
TV anchors this week immediately exposed errors, half truths and "falsehoods," as some delicately put it, in speeches at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. And newspapers are running follow-up fact-checking stories detailing the problems.
And this is good.
But with more people getting their news from television rather than from print media, there needs to be more fact-checking from broadcast journalists, since some politicians seem to have given up truth in favor of propaganda.
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