Truthiness and Truth Are Not the Same Thing
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Yesterday evening, your editors got more than a dozen breathless tips that the “real” reason Trent was resigning was that he was about to be outed in a gay sex scandal. We had a number of reasons that we didn’t post it, including: one of us felt Trent was too cheap to pay for it, even if he wanted it; we all agreed not even a closeted gay man would wear his hair like that; we’d been burned on a story like this before and hate having to issue corrections; and if he was trying to hide his gayness, he would never in a million years dress like this.
Yesterday evening, your editors got more than a dozen breathless tips that the “real” reason Trent was resigning was that he was about to be outed in a gay sex scandal. We had a number of reasons that we didn’t post it, including: one of us felt Trent was too cheap to pay for it, even if he wanted it; we all agreed not even a closeted gay man would wear his hair like that; we’d been burned on a story like this before and hate having to issue corrections; and if he was trying to hide his gayness, he would never in a million years dress like this.