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Originally Posted by Jazuela
Eh. Not being semantic here but there really is a difference between "reporting the truth" and "reporting truthfully."
If ABC news reports a live stream showing Senator Jimbob proclaiming that he won the Senate by 4 million votes...
and he actually only won it by 20 votes...
ABC news is reporting a lie. But they are reporting it truthfully.
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Lawyers wreck havoc with eye witness accounts of things mainly because the truth is a very hard thing to get at often.
A law professor would have come right down your throat if you ever made a statement with the word truth in it. At least, the first year of law school.