Setting the Record Straight

Campus Report ^ | April 7, 2009 | Heather Latham

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Setting the Record Straight

by: Heather Latham, April 07, 2009

There is a lot of truth in the world—“but you have to do a lot of digging to get it… [T]his is the point that” author M. Stanton Evans wanted “to stress most of all to…the younger folk” at the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Reed Irvine Awards during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. Evans, who won this year’s lifetime achievement award, applied this advice to more than just aspiring journalists. After listing a few careers, he said, “[A] huge amount of work needs to be done on all of this stuff.” He said that “a huge amount of work needs doing on continuing stories.” He argued that the “accepted narrative on almost everything…is wrong because it is generated by people with an agenda who are trying to sell a story that is not necessarily factual, and, in many cases, is not factual at all.”

And so, “what is needed—urgently needed—is not reporters who sit and pull stuff down off the internet and recycle it and try to make a story out of what’s already up there because what’s up there is often already recycled error... You have to get these original, primary sources and not just recycle what’s up there on the internet. And we need young scholars and writers and researchers, academics, journalists who will do this. It ain’t easy. It’s hard work, but it needs doing if the truth is to be told.”...

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Thanks for the post.