Leonard Pitts, Jr. posed a thought-provoking question in the Miami Herald last week – ‘When the history of this era is written, who’ll be to blame?’
Although blaming the school system for not teaching critical thinking, or the Alex Jones’ and Fox News’ of America for fake news, or the internet for flooding the public with what looks like legitimate discussions may seem likely, Pitts thinks the real news media in general will take a large part of the blame for ‘failing to be energetic advocates for, and defenders of, the actual, factual truth.’
