Making a Truth Sandwich
Making a Truth Sandwich
*REPORTING RIGHT*
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Jan. 3, 2024
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Top Story: Making a Truth Sandwich
Let’s hope 2024 isn’t another lying year…But let’s face it, journalists are likely to grapple with the lies of dishonest politicians, radical think tanks and anti-democratic political operatives for the long haul.
And now, as the 2024 election cycles heats up, lies about immigration, voters, public education and what exactly happened on Jan 6, 2021 are likely to be back in the headlines.
Already, these negative influences are eroding trust in media and readers’ ability to not unwittingly, spread their own misinformation.
Luckily, there’s a rhetorical tool for that, that you can use in your own stories. It’s called the Truth Sandwich. It’s a way to tell readers the truth, while exposing the lies of misinformation spreaders, without spreading their misinformation.
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Who Invented the Truth Sandwich?
Margaret Sullivan on the Truth Sandwich.
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Alex Aronson, executive director of Court Accountability
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Maurice Cunningham, retired associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and author of Dark Money and The Politics of School Privatization.
Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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