Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts, David E McCraw

While still in the preface, I was so upset by McCraw’s questions about the fate of the US, I almost put the book down. I’m glad I persevered because the New York Times on a day-to-day basis is a fascinating place. McCraw, a former journalist, is a NY Times lawyer.  As the book blurb on the publisher’s website states: “If you’ve read a controversial story in the paper since the Bush administration, it went across McCraw’s desk first. From Chelsea Manning’s leaks to Trump’s tax returns, McCraw is at the center of the paper’s decisions about what news is fit to print.”  McCraw tells a very good story.  For me the main take-away is that the blurring of fact and propaganda is a constant in our society.