Editor of the Reformer:
Re: Not Real News page in Monday e-edition
Bravo to the Reformer for bowing to the inevitable and admitting that fake news has, with unlimited assistance from legitimate news media, assumed its proper place as a consort of real news. Now readers have their news labeled ... (cannot labels be fake?)
From my advanced pinnacle of longevity (age 94) here is a reminder from times past. My parents owned and published a daily newspaper in central Illinois in a town of 7,000 people. I worked there from age 10 until my university matriculation. We had our share of false and imaginary information, requiring constant scrutiny. Scrutiny, however, is neither perfectly effective nor possible. The following whale-sized whopper tells all ...