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Fact or Opinion? Newspapers Should Not Enable the Spread of False Information
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I was privy to a lively e-mail discussion that started when an NCEW member posed this question:
"Our paper has a policy of printing all letters unless they're libelous. But I do challenge letter writers who are stating things that are obviously wrong, if only to save them from being savaged by other letter writers. Usually these writers are relieved when they realize they may have narrowly averted public embarrassment. They amend the letter and it runs, still containing an opinion but minus the glaring error. Then what do we do with these 'birther' letters?"
"Birthers" are the folks who claim President Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and, therefore, is ineligible …
