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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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.
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Except this has nothing to do with the law. It has to do with journalistic integrity.
In my above example, the news reported something that really did actually happen. Senator Jimbob really did state that he won by 4 million votes. They have it on video, the video is datemarked and timestamped, and it was reported live, in front of millions of witnesses. The statement made by Jimbob really did happen exactly as it was reported. The report itself - is a truthful report.
But the report's topic was about a lie. The fact that he lied is the topic. So it was a truthful accounting of a lie. The report wasn't a lie. And the topic wasn't true.