Truthteller
Stephen Davis
Exisle Publishing, $30.00,
ISBN 9781925335897
“Aren’t we all investigative journalists?” my colleague asked, as we lamented the quality of the coffee at an early hour in the newsroom kitchen.
“We’d all like to think so,” I replied. “But some of us are more investigative than others, perhaps.”
It was one of those innocent, non-committal exchanges prompted by the question, “What are you up to?”
At the base of my colleague’s question, of course, was the presumption that all journalists ask questions, investigate, probe, take nothing for granted, look for the spin, the obfuscation, the smokescreens … the bullshit.
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