Letter to America, Martin Luther King Day 2017

Since the election Terrain.org is hosting a “ Letter to America” series from writers coming to terms with the present political moment. Here is my contribution.

Dear America,

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words so bold they clearly belong to a different time than our own. For we could never be so confident about truth; to us it does not appear self-evident. Increasingly, we have trouble seeing it at all.

In our post-truth era, facts grow fuzzy and rumor replaces substance. The strongest journalistic standard has to do not with truth or even fairness but with appearance only: Has equal time been devoted to each side?

False equivalences are simply false...

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