The truth, in its purest form, can only relate to the past. There is no future truth. A fact is something that has already happened. This is the binary beauty of truth - it either is or it isn't. We cannot make up facts, or can we? Things have changed. In the (very) old days the truth was observed, in the physical world, right there in front of you - the truth existed only for those who were there, at the scene of the event. Seeing is believing, as the saying used to go. There was no packet networking, no internet, no instant access, no "retweet", no "like", no "share" - whatever your umbilical medium of staying connected may be. We live in different times. What is "fake news" if it is not some sort of oxymoron? News is mos news, right?! There used to be a clear delineation between news and opinion, fact and analysis, between certainty and conjecture. Those lines have blurred. There is no true or false. Just information. We have moved from weighing up the facts (or not) to weighing ...
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