You will have heard that the Times's Public Editor, Arthur Brisbane, asked a little plaintively if the newspaper ought to go beyond reporting the lies told by politicians and actually correct them. "Should the Times be a truth vigilante?" All the commenters (including yours truly, under my passport name) were properly outraged by such a stupid question, but an anonymous "J-School Grad" added something relevant to us here, and the project of the Rectification of Names:
I also think "Truth Vigilante" is a great sort of Orwellian phrase - ah, so now someone who bases their thinking on facts and confronts people knowingly spreading falsehoods with factual information to the contrary isn't just an "honest person", they're a Truth Vigilante. Next stop - Truth Terrorist.
