• People should be terrified of returning to an era when those in power are applauded for deciding which views constitute misinformation. | GETTY IMAGES
    People should be terrified of returning to an era when those in power are applauded for deciding which views constitute misinformation. | GETTY IMAGES
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I’m no fan of the current war on “misinformation” — if anything, I’m a conscientious objector — and one of the reasons is the term’s pedigree.

Although the Grammar Curmudgeon in me freely admits that the word is a perfectly fine one, the effort by public and private sector alike to hunt down misinformers to keep them from misinforming the public represents a return to the bad old days that once upon a time liberalism sensibly opposed.

In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.
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