Fact Finder

Just the facts, please:

Speaking to TheWrap, Redstone insisted that the media has an important role in America and it isn’t merely to indulge its “free speech.” “There is nothing controversial about telling the truth,” Redstone explained. “There’s nothing controversial about getting the real story out there. And I think companies have not only an opportunity, but a tremendous responsibility, to use the resources that they have to tell these stories and to get them to as many audiences, let people decide how they feel about something and how they react to something, but give them the facts.” She also said that “freedom of the press” can be misused by partisans who only tell one side of a story. “I don’t think there’s ever a time you have to compromise what it is that you say and do, but freedom of the press involves telling both sides of the story, giving the facts, not giving opinions. And I think that’s our responsibility as a media company,” she continued. Redstone also said that the media seemed to be better in the days of Walter Cronkite. “The days of Walter Cronkite, where, whatever it is, people believed in the truth, people really crave the information they need to be independent and make their own judgments. That’s what freedom of speech is,” she insisted.

Unfortunately for the modern media those days are long gone...