Hal Tarleton

Let me defend an honorable profession that is under siege for political reasons. In my 33 years in the newspaper business, I worked with dedicated...

COMMENTARY You remember Tail-Gunner Joe, the senator who claimed he had lists of ___ (fill in any outlandish number) communists working in the State Department....

No, they're not just making it up. A veteran news editor takes us behind the scenes of the newsroom to understand how professional journalists separate reality from "fake news."

Some people seem to believe that American journalism is monolithic and all-powerful and that news reported in newspapers or in broadcast media has been...