It’s not hard to come up with recent examples where we were told something blatantly false by the media, like “Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black people” or “a January 6 rioter killed a police officer with a fire extinguisher”. But Scott has left himself an out where he can always claim that whoever told us that was honestly mistaken or got bad information (the phrase “reckless disregard for the truth” suggests itself), or that they aren’t the right sort of authorities to count, or that they just hinted at the false statement (media do that all the time even for true things).
It’s not hard to come up with recent examples where we were told something blatantly false by the media, like “Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black people” or “a January 6 rioter killed a police officer with a fire extinguisher”. But Scott has left himself an out where he can always claim that whoever told us that was honestly mistaken or got bad information (the phrase “reckless disregard for the truth” suggests itself), or that they aren’t the right sort of authorities to count, or that they just hinted at the false statement (media do that all the time even for true things).