'On these and other topics, people ostensibly base their opinions on black-or-white “truth.” It turns out that, like the late cartoonist Jeff MacNelly’s hair, the truth is mostly gray.'
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly once said: “When I first started out in journalism, I was going to be a one-man truth squad. But as time went on, my hair turned gray … and so did the truth.”
MacNelly’s quotation comes to mind in daily reading of the Arizona Daily Star’s letters to the editor, in which the writers back their opinions with black-or-white “truth.” The reality is that the truth is often 50 shades of gray. Many of us arrive at black-or-white truth by distorting facts, overlooking nuances or cherry-picking quotations and other information. This is evident in a wide range of letters, regardless of how the writer is politically bent.People are also reading… On these and other topics, people ostensibly base their opinions on black-or-white “truth.” It turns out that, like the late cartoonist Jeff MacNelly’s hair, the truth is mostly gray.
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