Maybe it’s a sign that the public has given up on honesty from presidential candidates. Instead, in a recent flurry prompted by the public editor of The New York Times, the assumption seems to be that politicians will always lie and that voters’ defense against that is fact checking by journalists.
But … why do voters let politicians lie to them? What sort of lies do people accept, and which do they object to?
via www.nytimes.com
Worth reading.
