Truth or Error

"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth -- that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one."

-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
Source: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.4F85

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Starting with this interesting quote about truth and errors, let me introduce you to several websites that can help you sort out some of the truth (or reportedly the truth) and errors (whether due to poor 'fact checking' or deliberately misleading, skewed or biased reporting).



http://www.regrettheerror.com/ - Regret the Errror website - has excellent links to multiple fact/truth/error sites and on-line corrections by magazines and newspapers.

http://www.aim.org/ - The Accuracy in Media website

 http://www.fair.org/index.php - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)


"Take a look and you'll probably be surprised about the sheer extent of the problem both with people stating 'facts' that are NOT facts and news media publishing 'facts' or 'truths' that are NOT truths....."

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People always think something's all true. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield

There is no truth. There is only perception. ~Gustave Flaubert

These last three quotes from:  http://www.quotegarden.com/truth.html