I've been remiss in posting here, but busy at my paying job at America magazine. I wrote the cover story in our next print edition (not the one at right, but that's a good one too!), on the "15 Ways President Obama has changed the direction of America." I also have a column on Donald Trump as the "truthiness" candidate. Excerpt:
The fact-free candidate is now poised to take the Republican presidential nomination, and some see his rise as an indictment of American journalism. But Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post does not accept the premise of a negligent press corps. “One of the most frequent complaints I hear,” he writes, “is that ‘the media doesn’t fact-check Donald Trump enough.” His response: “You are mistaking a lack of changed minds with a lack of fact-checking…. That is not a failure of fact-checking. It is the death of the belief in fact.”
