The plain truth

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Truth matters. Even in a relativistic, post-modern age, you don't want WORLD magazine to make up and fabricate the stories we report in our news columns. You don't even want our staff footnoting their accounts with disclaimers saying that while the gist of the reporting is mostly on target, readers should never assume that every detail happened just the way we said it did. If WORLD did that just once or twice, you would properly cancel your subscription.

Indeed, none of us likes to be lied to. In the same way that we don't want strangers (or even family members!) reaching into our pockets and helping themselves to whatever they might find there, we don't want people telling us things that we discover later simply aren't so. When you find I've told you a lie, you understandably feel cheated.