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We have entered the era of “alternative facts.” Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, is the person Trump always wants speaking for him when the going gets tough. She was called to come to the rescue on the Sunday morning shows two days after the inauguration. The main question before her was to explain how Press Secretary Sean Spicer had told so many falsehoods in only two days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, she was asked to explain:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe> \n(please excuse NBC\u2019s self-promotion at the beginning of the clip)<\/p>\nMTP Moderator Chuck Todd did not let her off the hook, and ultimately Conway said that Spicer gave \u201calternative facts.\u201d<\/p>\nTodd tried to pull a \u201cgotcha\u201d on Conway by saying that \u201cAlternative facts are not facts.\u201d<\/p>\nMuch as I support Todd\u2019s effort to get Conway to speak truth, I do not agree with his assertion that alternative facts are not facts. The problem with what both Todd and Conway said was that they mistook alternative facts for untrue facts. There are differences and here are some:<\/p>\nSuppose the question is what is the sum of two plus two. If someone says five, that is false. The correct answer is four. But an alternative fact could be that the answer is the square root of sixteen. That would be a different answer, but it would also be right.<\/p>\nSomeone can be more creative with alternative facts. Suppose that someone said that Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey is not<\/u> a progressive because he voted against permitting Americans to purchase drugs from Canada (obviously related to the huge contributions he gets from Big Pharma1<\/sup><\/strong>). Someone else might say that he is indeed progressive because he received a 95% positive rating in 2015 from the liberal watchdog organization Americans for Democratic Action2<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\nBoth facts about Booker are correct. They each describe something that Booker has done, but they paint different pictures of him. Neither of them is false.<\/p>\nThere are two keys to accurate reporting.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure that the facts that you have are accurate.<\/li>\n<li>Put those facts in context. At times, that will mean including what the facts that you have stated do not<\/u> tell you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIn the case of Cory Booker, it is up to the reader to determine for him or herself if he is progressive, or at least progressive enough to satisfy the reader.<\/p>\nDonald Trump\u2019s latest flirtation with fantasy is his saying that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote because three to five million votes that she received were illegally cast. That is patently false.<\/p>\nIt does not rise to the level of an alternative fact.<\/p>\nTrump, Spicer and Conway are causing the media to rethink standard reporting. Recently we have heard a number of mainstream outlets begin a report with, \u201cPresident Donald Trump falsely reported \u2026.\u201d Such an opening was unthinkable, even as recently as six months ago. But times have changed.<\/p>\nIt is often difficult for newspapers or electronic media to fully source their facts. 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