Letters

This is your legacy

Eliza Hussman Gaines, publisher of this paper, daily declares in her Statement of Core Values, "To give the news impartially, without fear or favor," and incessantly claims her paper as fair and balanced in an oft-printed full-page ad of self-aggrandizement.

According to AI, the statement, "if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth," touches on the psychological phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect, where repeated exposure to information, even if false, can increase the belief that it is true. While repetition doesn't change a lie into a truth, it can significantly influence perception and make the false seem more believable.

For the first time in over a decade a U.S. president, in pursuit of peace, invited the Russian president to the U.S. in an effort