What is Truth; don’t ask the President of National Public Radio.

Part I

An expose of NPR by one of their journalist’s turned whistle-blower led to him being placed on unpaid leave two years ago.

The then new president went all out to save face in one of the weirdest spins you can imagine. She said in a TED talk; our reverence for the truth was a distraction that got in the way of finding common ground; and in getting things done. You can take it to mean they were the reasoned voice of calm in a storm of disinformation. They had a monopoly on truth. Caught up as they were in their noble calling; they may have just got a few things wrong. Wow just wow.

Relativists know how to weave that web and that is a fact.

Now if she had said this was their truth and been done with she would have had a point.

Katherine Maher recasts truth as personal preference, and then goes on to lament a world divided; as she leaves us to scratch our heads.

Seeking the truth “allows us to start having conversations about the truth in a way that focuses on what we believe rather than what can be known. And this is a definition that is deeply divisive and harmful.” Huh?

She hopes we will all buy into what she calls minimum viable truth? She defines it as getting it right enough, enough of the time, to be useful enough to enough people. It means setting aside our bigger belief systems, and not being quite so fussy about perfection.

I worry for this woman. There I said it.

To be continued.