"We honor the central idea of journalism - the conviction, as my old boss Peter Kann once said, “that facts are facts; that they are ascertainable through honest, open-minded and diligent reporting; that truth is attainable by laying fact upon fact, much like the construction of a cathedral; and that truth is not merely in the eye of the beholder.”"
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Don't dismiss President Trump's attacks on the media as mere stupidity by Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He made this speech for the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.