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by jessaustin 2634 days ago
It's not hard to see parallels between the two situations. Both the court and the average consumer of news are trying to figure out what's true and what isn't. A real human being who is quoted in the paper will certainly be "cross-examined" when subsequent events show him to have been completely mistaken. DC-insider ventriloquists with no names will not be cross-examined so.