# How do you determine "The Truth"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-determine-the-truth/930518>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-determine-the-truth/930518 "2021-01-14T14:28:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-determine-the-truth/930518/81 "2021-04-12T19:20:55Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> That’s true, but my takeaway is that Buckley was a confirmed deist. He also went to his grave believing that Joseph McCarthy was a great patriot.

He didn’t exactly hide it. His first book was “God and Man at Yale” where he railed at Yale for being too secular - in 1950! Not deist, though, theist in general and Catholic in particular.

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**Author:** ![eburacum\_45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum_45/32/3385_2.png) [@eburacum\_45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum_45)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-determine-the-truth/930518/82 "2021-04-15T18:23:40Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Basically, you can ignore anything right-wingers are complaining about and just read the NY Times or the Washington Post (or NPR, or the BBC for more international news). You’ll get 95% of The Truth, very little bullshit. You’ll be close enough to The Truth that you wouldn’t have to worry about the rest.

I agree with your estimate of the BBC, and the Washington Post is famously good for investigative journalism, but the New York Times has been annoyingly unskeptical about the recent rash of military UFO reports. A little more depth please, NYT, before I count your paper among the ranks of the reliable.

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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-determine-the-truth/930518/83 "2021-04-15T18:32:26Z")

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> [@eburacum\_45](#):
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> A little more depth please, NYT, before I count your paper among the ranks of the reliable.

Sure, but you’ll still come away smarter after reading it, as opposed to reading Fox, the NY Post, The Blaze, OANN, etc.

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