‘Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee’
The American media — long stalwart defenders of the First Amendment — are now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among journalists that freedom of the press…
Dishonest Political Fact Checkers and the Pinocchio Press
by James Taranto In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy. We suppose people who…