Peeve of the Day, highly paid journalists who attribute quotations to the wrong person.
Today's culprit: David Crowe. Sydney Morning Herald, Chief political correspondent who wrote
Quote:
Watch out for the small tricks and big lies of the final campaign to decide the Indigenous Voice [referendum]. The arguments about the Voice have been marked by misinformation and outright falsehoods for most of this year, and those lies will be fired with rocket fuel now that voting day is so close.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” said Mark Twain. The trouble is that challenging a false claim can help it travel even faster, especially when it is based on a half-truth that can be found in the news or on a government website. But that is no reason to greet a falsehood with a shrug.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...30-p5e0rn.html
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There is no evidence that Twain ever wrote or uttered those words, if anyone did it was Jonathan Swift ==>>
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
You'd think a senior journalist, published author and winner of the Federal Press Gallery Journalist of the Year Award would fact check his own work - especially given his chosen subject matter.
Needless to day my Comment at the SMH didn't get published.
Q. what happened to the Politics and Religion Forum