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JOURNALISM AND TRUTH
AJC Group
Medill School of Journalism
VISIONS of the AMERICAN PRESS
General Editor
David Abrahamson
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JOURNALISM
AND TRUTH
ST R A N G E B E D F E L LOWS
Tom Goldstein
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Northwestern University Press
www.nupress.northwestern.edu
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN 978-0-8101-2433-2
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For Leslie, Max, and Blaze
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CONTENTS
Preface
xiii
One
Introduction
1
Two
Journalism as Nonrepresentative Truth
25
Three
Looking at the Law
47
Four
Truth in the Balance
63
Five
Eyewitness to History
77
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Six
Tabloid Truths
95
Seven
Misadventures in Fact-Checking
121
Eight
Janet Malcolm’s Special Truths
141
Nine
Looking Forward
161
Notes
169
Bibliography
187
Index
197
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FOREWORD
ix
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x FO R E WO R D
some political leaders have been known to have their minds made
up on a course of action, with facts to the contrary being viewed
as “inconvenient truths.” And journalists are routinely criticized
for bringing a bias to their coverage that only accommodates facts
that fit their fixed point of view.
But in my experience, most politicians and journalists want to
get it right, to follow wherever the facts may lead, to draw con-
clusions based on the best information available. But this approach
is not without risk. When as vice chairman of the Senate Water-
gate Committee I announced that I would go where the facts led
me, I was denounced by many of my fellow Republicans for not
mounting a more vigorous (and blinkered) defense of President
Nixon. Nor did I endear myself to my party when, a few years
later, I decided to retain consultants on both sides of the Panama
Canal treaty issue and commission them to make the best cases for
and against ratification of the treaty to cede American control over
the canal to the government of Panama. But I reasoned that the
truth of the situation would emerge in this adversarial process—as
we have long presumed it to do in our courts of law, where I prac-
ticed for years before turning to politics—and I am satisfied that it
did.
Truth is not a prisoner of this bipolar process. There may well
be more than two sides to an issue, as anyone who has dealt with
the old Soviet Union (“a riddle wrapped in enigma inside a mys-
tery,” as Churchill described it) or the new Middle East would
attest. When as chief of staff for President Reagan I was respon-
sible for the preparation of his decision memoranda, I insisted
that only the hardest decisions reach him, the ones for which a
good case could be made for several options. In such cases, truth
was on many sides of a question, and wisdom and good judgment
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FO R E WO R D xi
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xii FO R E WO R D
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PREFACE
xiii
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xiv P R E FAC E
I could not get a salaried job and had signed up selling Fuller
Brushes door to door on commission. Surprising my bosses, my
parents, and myself, I had done very well knocking on strangers’
doors, and, relatively speaking, I made a lot of money doing it.
Now I had found a sympathetic ear. Trump had sold Fuller
Brushes when he was in college too. (As I later found out, many
reporters have had early experiences selling door to door, and for
those who, like me, were naturally shy, it was a worthwhile expe-
rience.) Trump and I swapped stories about the best strategies for
selling Fuller Brushes for an hour, never really talking about jour-
nalism. When it was time for me to go, Trump assured me that I
was just the kind of person cut out for Columbia, and he invited
me to attend after I spent a year in law school.
I found law school intimidating. I did not like the large classes
or the almost total absence of feedback. I was sufficiently afraid of
failure that I studied hard, and slowly I began to do what genera-
tions before and after me have done: I began to “think like a
lawyer.” At the time I did not make much of the logical tool I had
added to my arsenal, but my law training has been invaluable to
me in my career—and in a very direct way served as the impetus
for this book. As planned, after my first year of law school I en-
rolled in the journalism school, which I loved. It was the tumul-
tuous fall of 1968, and I could not imagine a better place to be
than Columbia, or a better thing to be doing there than studying
journalism. Not as planned, I returned to law school after my year
as a journalism student. My journalism teachers persuaded me that
was a wise move, and it was, even though I have never actually
practiced law. A few years after I graduated from law school, I got
hired by the New York Times. It was my law degree, not my
journalism credential, that the editors were most interested in. At
the Times, I covered legal issues, and I spent a lot of time with
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