Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Our Oldest Stories

The other day I listened as my former sister-in-law told her younger brother a story from years ago. It happened when they lived in Japan and he was a blond-haired boy. One day as the family picnicked near a river, a crowd gathered to admire and photograph him and exclaim over his beautiful hair color, which is, of course, rare in Japan.

As he posed for their pictures, he slipped and fell into the river and started to be carried away in the current, his blond head bobbing above the surface. Panicking, the sister dove in and saved him, dragged him to shore and stood him up to comfort him.

But rather than crying he broke into a broad grin and laughed. He had loved the experience, at least according to her telling of the tale.

Her story struck me as very similar to one I tell about their nephew, who is my oldest son, when he was a toddler. One rainy winter's day after parking my leaky 1966 Volvo sedan on one of San Francisco's notoriously slanted streets, I got out and went around to open the back door and lift my son out of his carseat.

But the precocious young fellow had already unbuckled his restraint and quick as a flash he simply slipped out of the open door into the space between the car and the curb under a small but raging river of rainwater coursing down the hill.

I freaked but was able to grab him before he was swept away by that filthy water. As I lifted him up, he broke into a hysterical laugh. He had loved every minute of it, at least according to how I tell the story.

As I read through other people's memoirs and teach memoir-writing myself, the nature of these simple family stories is a constant source of amazement to me. When the writers cover a broad swath of their family history, I notice a pattern whereby similar stories tend to repeat themselves generation to generation. It makes me wonder why we select the stories we want to remember from the (literally) millions of choices we have about each other.

Consistent with the two stories cited above, but with an added twist, one of my granddaughters, who is now ten, recently told me her own getting-all-wet story. "It was raining really hard outside one night, Grandpa. So I took off my shoes and ran up and down our block getting completely soaked head to toe. I was screaming with joy because I loved it!"

Clearly, our family lore places some sort of value on our kids rejoicing in getting wet in ways that others might find uncomfortable. Why these stories? I have no idea.

It is my theory that families have passed on oral traditions like these down through the millennia and that the stories they choose emphasize characteristics they wish to propagate among their progeny.

If I am right, maybe my children's great-great-great-grandfather told a similar story about one of his siblings or kids two hundred years before ours. For all we know, these types of tales may date from thousands of years ago.

And now we pass them forward.

(Excepted from a 2021 essay.)

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  • More than 100 killed in Texas floods, with 11 still missing from Camp Mystic (BBC)

  • Debate erupts over role Trump cuts played in response to deadly Texas floods (AP)

  • Trump and Netanyahu Meet as New Middle East Tests Loom (WSJ)

  • Trump and Netanyahu Expected to Discuss Prospects of Gaza Cease-Fire (NYT)

  • Trump announces tariffs of at least 25 percent on seven countries (WP)

  • BRICS nations push back as Trump warns of tariffs (NPR)

  • No Coherent Policy — Who’s Running American Defense Policy? (Atlantic)

  • How Elon Musk’s Third Party Gamble Could Succeed (Politico Mag)

  • Is the Hispanic Red Wave for Trump Starting to Crash? (New Yorker)

  • US troops on the ground in LA immigration enforcement operation, DOD says (ABC)

  • Justice Department, driven by Trump policy, plans to go after naturalized U.S. citizens (Miami Herald)

  • Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? (TNR)

  • Political violence poses an existential threat to our nation and our freedoms—but it’s not too late. (Atlantic)

  • U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread (WP)

  • Docs sue RFK Jr. over COVID vax policy changes (Axios)

  • Humans Are Fast Evolving Into an Astonishing Lifeform (Psychology Today)

  • Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? (NYT)

  • Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence (Democracy Now)

  • She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started. (NYT)

  • Allergists Recommend Allergy Sufferers Retreat Underground To Form Pollen-Free, Cave-Dwelling Society (The Onion)

 

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Monday, July 07, 2025

Her Smile

One day recently, a film crew stopped by to interview me about people and events from a time long ago. At one point they wanted to get some B-roll of me sitting at a table writing my daily essay.

They also asked my ten-year-old granddaughter to hover over my shoulder and watch me type.

She is a little shy, but not overly so, so she agreed. As she held the pose, I wrote the first words that popped into my mind. None of it was planned. Those words turned out to be the conversation I would like to have with her about life if we were ever to do that.

Here is what I wrote:

"So the most important thing I could ever say to you while you are still young is don't waste it. Don't waste it because it won't come around again.

"This sounds like a cliche and of course it is. But not all cliches are dumb.

"Double digits (your age) ... they only start once. If you live long enough you may make triple digits. But that is only for the chosen few so my advice is to treasure the two-digit stretch as long as you can, from age ten to ninety nine.

"Pace yourself. Life is way shorter than we'd ultimately like it to be. Most people live at high speed and ignore the stops. But the rest stops are special in their own way. They are when you can breathe, reflect.

"And look up and see where you are going.

"What else? Maybe just this: Each and every one of us is special in our own way...So live your life as if it really matters! Follow your passion. Don't settle for less. Your dreams may or may not come true but they definitely won't come true if you don't try..."

***

At this point the director called "Cut" and it was a wrap. The crew took my granddaughter to another room to sign the standard release form in case they use her image in the upcoming documentary.

She came back and brought the form to me to sign. "Just put down that you are my Grandpa."

"Thanks for helping out with this, sweetie, and welcome to Hollywood," I told her. "What was it like for you?"

"Well I tried to stay still and look serious as long as I could. But I was reading what you wrote and I just had to smile. So I did. And then the man said 'cut'."

Of course she is too young to know it yet but the moment she smiled was the one he was waiting for. And I'm sure if she's in the doc that will make the final cut.

(This one is from 2021. The girl in the story is now 14.)

HEADLINES:

  • ICE Doesn't Need Another $100 Billion — The GOP tax bill gives Trump far too much money — and authority — to rescue his failing immigration crackdown (Bloomberg)

  • At least 80 dead in catastrophic Texas floods as governor warns of more rain to come (CNN)

  • Flood warnings complicate Texas rescue effort as death toll includes 21 children (WP)

  • A girls' summer camp cut short by deadly disaster (BBC)

  • Bessent: Trump tariffs set to ‘boomerang back’ to higher rates if deals not reached (The Hill)

  • Stock Futures Are Falling As Trump Resets Tariffs to Aug. 1 (Barron’s)

  • ICE Raids Derail Los Angeles Economy as Workers Go Into Hiding (Bloomberg)

  • Israeli Prime Minister says he believes Trump can help seal a ceasefire deal (Reuters)

  • Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows (Guardian)

  • The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy (NYT)

  • AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands (TechXplore)

  • Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” (ArsTechnica)

  • ICE Has Gall To Leave Raided Restaurant Negative Review (The Onion)

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Sunday, July 06, 2025

Foreigners

Over my years of teaching at UC Berkeley, Stanford and SF State, there were many international students in my classes and they invariably added to the educational and social dynamics in multiple ways. Some struggled with speaking and comprehending English, but they just worked harder and longer to keep up with the native English speakers.

It probably helped that I had experience teaching overseas and was used to speaking slowly, enunciating words clearly, and monitoring student faces to ascertain whether they were following what I was saying or not.

In the end, it was a great pleasure to work with foreign students, who came from all over the world. In seminars, I always solicited their participation in the form of educating the American students about life in their countries. They added a lot.

So it pains me greatly that the Trump administration is using various ploys as an excuse to try to bar many of these students from returning to their colleges here in the fall, and to deport the students who are already here. 

This is something Trump also tried to do in his first administration, when he used the specious arguments is that international students no longer qualified to attend universities that had switched to online instruction out of concerns over Covid-19.

That was pure BS, as I called it at the time and simply one more naked display of the shameful xenophobia that has marked his regime's entire time in power over two terms. It is deplorable. 

The officials who defend these exclusionist policies should be ashamed of themselves, but Trump’s is a cabinet without shame. They are directly violating this country's sacred promise enshrined by the Statue of Liberty.

***

One life principle I learned a long time ago is that by making things more accessible to those with disabilities or differences, we all benefit collectively. An example is curb cuts. It is now possible for those in wheelchairs to navigate our sidewalks safely thanks to curb cuts, but also for parents pushing babies in strollers, kids learning to ride bikes, kids on skates, older folks with canes or walkers, and anyone else who just has difficulty picking up their feet a few inches when they reach a curb. 

That would include me.

By the same token, speaking the English language slowly, carefully and clearly is best for everybody, not just non-native speakers. In the Peace Corps, that is the way we had to speak it because none of our students knew more than a smattering of English words.

That formative experience for me in my early 20s turned me into a much better public speaker later on.

Besides speaking slowly, I learned to pause at the end of phrases, to give time for non-English listeners to absorb my meaning. Those pauses worked to allow the entire audience to absorb my meaning, actually; my words had much greater impact than would otherwise have been the case.

As I spoke more and more regularly before audiences here and around the world, increasing numbers of people came up to me afterward, clearly affected by the content of my speeches. But the content would have been the same regardless of the style of my speech. Had I not been influenced by my years teaching in Afghanistan, I would have delivered those speeches at a much more rapid pace, no doubt slurring words and using more slang that would have made it difficult for non-native speakers to process.

The equivalent to this principle in writing is to choose words carefully, seeking clarity and specificity. Using simpler words instead of technical or academic jargon, which only serves to exclude people. Plain speak, pure and simple, Direct from writer to reader. No filters.

Unlike Trump, I have no hidden agenda when I speak or write. I'm not going to use racist code words or try to manipulate anyone. Whether readers agree with me is not an issue. My role, as I see it, is to speak clearly about what I think and feel.

And about what I see.

I see a nation struggling to survive according to its first principles. We are persisting in our dreams under a tyrant.

All we can do is try. And I see growing numbers of people finally willing to try.

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Saturday, July 05, 2025

Forward and Back

My best memories of long July 4th weekends are from when I was a teenager and our family spent them camping, and I was running with other teenagers.

Otherwise, I’ve usually been ambivalent about celebrating this national holiday. The country’s founding, of course — I celebrate that — and as this is my 78th Independence Day, I’m now 31.7 percent as old as America (249), making me a virtual grandson of the Revolution.

Can you grapple with that? If life were a relay race, a baby born in 1776 reaching the age of 80 could have “handed off” a baton (the Declaration of Independence) to a baby in 1856, who then at the age of 80 in 1936 handed off the baton to my big sister, who was born in that very year.

That was just two lifetimes removed from the founding of the nation.

She lateraled the baton to me ten years later, making her 35.3 percent as old as America, so round us off together and the generational math of this relay race metaphor makes almost perfect sense.

But life isn’t a race, even though it can sometimes feel that way, and even if it were, who can say to where we are headed?

That indeed is the current dilemma. Where is this society headed? Exactly what type of my country, ‘tis of thee do we sing?

These days it can feel like we’re headed backwards, maybe not all the way to genocidal wars on the native population and slavery, but to violence against immigrants and abandonment of the poor.

This July 4th, the Americans I celebrate, past, present and future, are those who believe in freedom and justice for all of the people all of the time, regardless of race, sex, age, gender, religion, citizenship status or any other factor used by the most dangerous president in history to divide rather than unite us.

So I say Happy Birthday to a more loving America — if we can still aspire to such a thing in these damaged times.

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Friday, July 04, 2025

Trump's War on Media

The news is all bad when it comes to the media industry these days. Journalists cringe at the humiliation of “60 Minutes,” but that is only one of many attacks by the Trump administration meant to silence critics and suppress dissent.

A critical press is necessary for a healthy democracy and our democracy is currently in poor health — perhaps failing health in that it may not survive. In his first term, Trump labeled journalists the “enemy of the people.” In his second term, he is trying to eliminate those “enemies” one by one.

Read the details below, starting with the “60 Minutes” debacle, as summarized by Axios:

“Press freedom advocates are sounding the alarm following Paramount's $16 million settlement with President Trump, arguing the deal sets a dangerous new precedent, particularly for smaller outlets with fewer legal resources.”

The piece makes these points:

  • A steady decline in media trust, coupled with enormous financial challenges, has made the press more vulnerable to political pressure campaigns than ever before.

  • The deal has drawn outrage from critics who believe Paramount could have won what they believe is a frivolous lawsuit.

  • The Knight Institute said Paramount's legal exposure was "negligible," and argued it should've fought the case in court.

  • PEN America, another press freedom group, said Paramount "caved to presidential pressure" and "chose appeasement to bolster its finances."

The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote:

  • "President Trump has taunted the media for years, and some of his jibes are deserved given the groupthink in most newsrooms. What's happening now, though, is different: The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn't like. It's a low move in a free country with a free press."

Axios reports some of those intimidating moves:

  • Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have endorsed the idea of prosecuting CNN for its critical coverage of U.S. strikes in Iran and its immigration reporting.

  • Trump also suggested he could demand journalists reveal their sources in light of the Iran intel leak. In April, the Justice Department repealed protections for journalist-source confidentiality.

  • The White House has already banned the AP over its editorial standards. It's also pushing Congress to gut fundingfor public media. The FCC has launched investigations into the DEI policies of Comcast/NBCU and Disney/ABC.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. Those who aspire to authoritarian rule always go after the press.

Trump is no different.

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Thursday, July 03, 2025

Mattering

I’m not sure that I ever fully appreciated it at the time — in fact, I’m quite sure I didn’t — but during the years that one of my obligations was to drop my kids off at school or camp it actually was a privilege.

Like all adults trying to balance responsibilities, I probably complained about it on occasion, and it certainly could be stressful when we were running late.

But it was a privilege because it was one of my opportunities to play an essential role in our social ecosystem. 

Believing that your role matters is not always the easiest thing to achieve in American culture. Years later, when the kids were grown, I missed it. And I started feeling rather inessential. 

Retiring from work made everything worse, as my professional responsibilities, once deemed by many as weighty and significant, melted away just like those parental duties.

And it was that point that I started pondering how much I ever did matter in the larger scheme of things.

Early in 2020, just as the pandemic was arriving and I was recovering from a stroke, I moved into an assisted care facility. At the time it seemed like the only option left for me. 

In fact, the last place on earth I needed to be was with a bunch of other old people walled off from society, waiting to die. Nothing against the staff members in there, most of whom were terrific, or the residents, but every minute I spent in that place my hope was evaporating and my spirit was being crushed.

But in the end I was one of the lucky ones who escaped. My family rescued me and that’s why I can tell this little story today.

As I woke up one recent morning, it was obvious that the heat wave had finally broken. Fresh cool air swept in from the ocean. 

As I drank my first cup of coffee, my 11-year-old granddaughter appeared. Her parents were busy and she asked if I could give her a ride.

Without hesitation, I grabbed the car keys.

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Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Personal Origins: Peace Corps

One of the most consequential moments in John F. Kennedy's candidacy for the Presidency was a spur-of-the-moment speech he gave in the early morning hours of October 14, 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

He was worn out from campaigning and had intended to go to bed upon arriving, but then he was told that 10,000 students had been waiting patiently for him for hours, so he decided instead to go to the campus of the University of Michigan and deliver what became a life-changing speech for many in my generation.

He proposed creating a new national service for students, and the youthful crowd roared its approval. After he was elected, he made good on that proposal by forming the Peace Corps.

I was a naive young man of 22 when I went to Afghanistan as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1969, having never been out of the country before, let alone halfway around the world.

But by then, thousands of young people just like me were answering Kennedy's call to serve our country not by going to war but by spreading messages of peace.

We were idealistic and naive, yes, but those of us who were male were also trying to avoid the draft, which would have sent us to Vietnam to fight a war we vehemently opposed.

Like others in my generation, I was radicalized in college to the point I considered U.S. foreign policy the imperial arm of an expanding empire.

Living in Afghanistan proved to be a rude awakening about some of my assumptions. I saw up close how mean and brutal people could be to each other in a poor society, including tribal wars, murders, bribery and cruelty like in the "Lord of the Flies."

I also saw beauty, generosity and tenderness -- the whole range of human behavior was on display every day amid widespread illiteracy and ignorance.

The poorest people on the planet would welcome me into their homes to share the one good meal they would have that entire week. Strangers went out of their way to help me when I got lost.

When I taught high school in Taloqan, many of my students spouted political beliefs shaped by the five booming radio signals that reached our remote town -- Radio Moscow, Radio Peking, and to a much lesser degree, Radio Kabul, the BBC and the Voice of America, (which has in 2025 been dismantled by Trump).

The brightest kids seemed attracted by socialist and communist ideas similar to the Marxist-Leninist thinking I was familiar with on campuses back home. At first I went along with their ideas about how U.S. imperialism was oppressing people in poor countries, but eventually, like any committed teacher, I began to challenge their assumptions, if only to get them to think more critically.

It was easy to see how Soviet and Chinese propaganda was distorting these young minds, and also how their views of America were affected by the worst of Hollywood. The stories they repeated about U.S. barbarism were overblown and simplistic.

U.S. troops had slaughtered innocents at My Lai, it was true, which was awful, but all armies do horrible things. Certainly no country had a monopoly on human rights abuses. Meanwhile, there were also many, many Americans like Peace Corps Volunteers who were opposed to the military and dispensing aid, food, clothes, medicine and education instead of guns and napalm.

But to be truthful, I more or less agreed with my students’ political analysis and wanted no part of the dark sides of U.S. policy, What I did wish to share were the better parts of our culture -- our beliefs in freedom, gender equality, and universal literacy.

Fewer than ten percent of the Afghans population could read or write. The infant mortality rate was the highest in the world. Women had little access to education, jobs or independent lives.

I knew my students needed a counterweight to what they were hearing on Radio Moscow, but the irony was not lost on me that here I was, an anti-war American, seemingly defending my country’s military as part of my role as a mentor.

Anyway, for Afghans in 1970, the problem wasn’t the threat of impending American intervention. The problem was that the Russians had troops massed right next door. And within a few years of my leaving Afghanistan, the Russians indeed invaded, bombing and strafing the country into submission, or so they thought at the time.

But that ended badly for the Soviets a decade later as they limped back to Moscow in retreat. Once they lost the Afghan war, the entire Soviet empire crumbled as well.

(I first published this one four years ago.)

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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Coralling AI

It’s been a while since I’ve taken on the subject of artificial intelligence, partly because it’s such a difficult topic to gain sufficient perspective on to have something concrete and useful to say.

That’s where an interview with a top AI researcher comes in: “Max Tegmark: Can We Prevent AI Superintelligence From Controlling Us?” I’ll summarize some of MIT professor Tegmark’s main observations, but I urge anyone who is interested to watch the entire conversation, which lasts one hour.

Tegmark establishes that AI researchers have gotten much closer to creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) than almost anyone expected by this point. AGI is considered an existential risk because it is not only going to be as smart as us, it will also be capable of making itself much more intelligent (and therefore more powerful) without any further involvement from us — if we let it. Left on its own, it would rapidly evolve.

And it’s probably only a matter of a few years until this critical threshold moment for AGI is upon us.

Tegmark explains that humanity’s problem when confronted with this super-intelligence is the equivalent to that of a snail in relation to human beings. There was never any doubt which species — snails or humans — would control life on earth, as humans are more intelligent and therefore more powerful than snails. 

But when it comes to AGI, there are limits to our human brainpower that machines don’t share so we could well end up occupying the position of the snails in relation to AGI.

Do not despair just yet. Tegmark is pushing hope, not fear.

First, by comparing AGI to nuclear bombs, he points out that humanity has for 80 years avoided extinction through a combination of regulation, deterrence and our shared survival instinct.

A similar global approach, Tegmark believes, can save us from extinction by way of super-intelligent machines. They key first step is government regulation — setting basic safety standards that prevents the release of AGI in forms that are too general and therefore too risky for humans to control.

The key, he believes, is to confine AI products to narrower applications, such as tools. Curing cancer, self-driving cars, creating wealth are all good goals for AGI, whereas making war on our species is not.

As for the global competition with China, Tegmark believes something like the US-USSR standoff will be possible and necessary in the face of AGI, since it represents an alien species that in many ways will be more powerful than either country.

Come to think of it, maybe the scenario in the film “Independence Day” is a better reference point for all this. When it comes to the ultimate battle between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’, humans can put aside their differences long enough to overcome an alien invader. 

It looks like we’re gonna have to do the for real.

To contact your Congressional representatives about regulating AI, click on these links for your elected officials in the House or the Senate.

See also “Guardrails for AI.”

(Thanks to my friend and AI researcher John Jameson, for alerting me to Tegmark’s interview.)

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Monday, June 30, 2025

Monday Mix

HEADLINES:

  • Republicans Fight It Out on Trump’s Tax Megabill (WSJ)

  • Trump Tax Bill Hits Senate as GOP Torn by Competing Demands (Bloomberg)

  • Senate Debates Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt (NYT)

  • Sen. Thom Tillis won't run for reelection in 2026 (Axios)

  • Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, putting California farms at risk. (Reuters)

  • ‘Completely Disrupted’: Fear Upends Life for Latinos in L.A. (NYT)

  • After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive (AP)

  • Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed. (WP)

  • Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ (Guardian)

  • World Bank warns that 39 fragile states are falling further behind as conflicts grow, get deadlier (AP)

  • ‘Nothing is written down’: Culture of secrecy overtakes Trump’s government (WP)

  • Parkinson's Disease Might Not Start in The Brain, Study Finds (ScienceAlert)

  • The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse (Atlantic)

  • 2 dead in Idaho after firefighters ambushed by gunfire while responding to blaze (ABC)

  • It’s Known as ‘The List’—and It’s a Secret File of AI Geniuses (WSJ)

  • Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem (Verge)

  • Max Tegmark: Can We Prevent AI Superintelligence From Controlling Us? (MIT)

  • My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them (Wired)

  • A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? (NYT)

  • Congress Passes Blank Bill For Trump To Write Whatever Law He Wants (The Onion)

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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Setting Aside Bias

What is expected of journalists is very much like what we ask of jurors.

When the members of a jury are selected, they are asked whether they can be fair in coming to a judgement — whether they can put aside any biases or pre-existing opinions about the people and issues involved in that trial in order to come to a dispassionate, balanced decision based not on beliefs or prejudices but on the facts as established in sworn testimony.

They are also reminded of this pledge by the judge when they receive instructions just before they begin their deliberations.

The analogy is not perfect but what we demand of jurors is similar to what we insist of journalists when we send them out to gather the facts for stories.

Editors and news directors recognize that reporters are just like anyone else in that they have their own beliefs, opinions, biases, blind spots and flaws. That’s only human.

But what a good journalist, like a good juror, has to set that all aside in favor of an all-consuming commitment to get it right.

That this is hard to do is obvious, especially when the truths we discover contradict our core beliefs, prejudices or assumptions. But, as I’ve said many times to student journalists, you can’t discover the truth as you wish it to be, you have to report the truth as you discover it to be.

The integrity of our legal system depends on jurors who can follow strict jury instructions in a search for the truth. The integrity of our media institutions depend on journalists who can maintain a similar discipline in their search for truth.

And our democracy depends on both them.

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