-- By Tom Phillips
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Rudy Giuliani: "Truth isn't truth"
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It’s happening more and more these days – people saying things that just a few years ago would have been considered insane. At a recent party, a young female stranger – a
graduate student – asked me, “What do you think about the post-truth
moment?” My flustered answer: “I’m
against it.”
On the street and even in church, on hearing that I used to
write for CBS News, people have cheerfully piped up: “Oh, fake news!” Absolutely not, I tell them. I never knowingly wrote a word of fake
news. Oh, they reply, but you’re
retired. How about the people writing
now?
I am a member of two establishments -- the press and the church -- that
depend for their existence on the idea of truth. Both are under siege by a new wave of old politics
that values visions over facts, slogans over reason, personality over truthfulness. The press is in danger of being discredited,
the church of being co-opted. And so
far, the press is holding up better, more resistant and resilient.
