Wall Street Journal Editor Says His Newspaper Won’t Call Donald Trump’s Lies ‘Lies’

[Benton]

(01-02-2017, 03:27 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: “I’d be careful about using the word ‘lie.’ ‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.”


I see nothing wrong with this statement, and that is coming from someone who believes Donald Trump is completely unqualified and proven to be too incompetent for the role he is about to assume.

Agreed.

Really, in journalism, the only time they should be using the word is if it's deliberate (which is often hard to prove) or willfully negligent. In print, occasionally copy editors or headline writers will try to chop a headline down and toss lie in there, but they shouldn't.