Firm truth, but in the same stream of news truths halved, quartered, nulled.
But, as is so often the case when the President cries "fake news," the truth soon emerges.
He believes in the primacy of news, that truth is not the hole in the middle of the doughnut and that good information will help the body politic find the angels of its better nature.
I'd see him on the news speaking truth to power, speaking out against his country's white rulers and their shameful system of apartheid, or standing in the midst of some violent altercation trying to calm the situation down, and I'd wonder how much longer he'd be able to get away with it.
But, really, when Flud launched its iPhone app in December 2010, there was plenty of demand for a "better" way to consume the news — in truth, there still is.
The author wrote, "The good news: the truth is getting exposed.
Nobody wants to hear the bad news, the truth exposing the Emperor's self-delusions, especially those who profit most from the delusions".
Given the rise of fake news, "post-truth" election campaigns, misleading polls and Michael Gove's notorious attack on experts, it has been a challenging period for the concept of trust.
Almost half a century ago, Republican lawmakers championed the act in the hope of curbing the "selective disclosures, managed news, half-truths, and admitted distortions" that had come to characterize official statements about the war in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Fake news, murky truths contribute to this 21st-century story where community, however its defined, becomes everything.
