Truth Be Told . . .

PICTURE A full-page house ad in what is regarded as the most authoritative newspaper in the United States, with lettering in black on a muted yellow background. It looks something like this.

The truth
takes a journalist

More than 1,700 journalists work for The New York Times.
They come from Iraq, Iowa and everywhere in between.
They include doctors, former service members, business
graduates and lawyers. They also include a son who bonded
with his mother over kimchi, a woman who chose a school
for her daughter in a segregated city and a man who got his
start in journalism while attending college — and working
two jobs. They’re people who have dedicated their lives to
helping us understand the world.

The New York Times

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AND THEN there is this message from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth about their new billboard on Times Square aimed at the mangers who keep the journalists in line. Click HERE to see the billboard and read a few paragraphs about why it’s where it is.

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IN YESTERDAY’S Times Ben Smith’s  weekly “The Media Equation” feature is devoted to the thorny question of truth. It is headed

New Words
To Label
The Truth

and begins, “On Friday afternoons this fall, news executives have dialed into a series of off-the-record Zoom meetings led by Harvard academics whose goal is to ‘help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation.’” Read it all HERE courtesy of the Washingtonian magazine.

One observer’s guess is that some of the attendees would like to meet elsewhere, in person, to discuss getting the word out comprehensively about, say, the September 2001 terror attacks or the worldwide coronavirus mess of the past two years.

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OVER AT the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, the work continues to get the movie “9/11: From Crime Scene to Courtroom” produced. See this last Sunday’s Weekender or the LC’s website for a bit more. Movies like the ones AE911Truth, the LC and others have to make — there are probably a dozen of them — would be unnecessary if our newspapers would do their jobs.

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MEANWHILE, those two organizations are competing with thousands of others today, “Giving Tuesday,” for some bucks from thankful supporters. No time like the present to help.

— Mark Channing Miller