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The Declaration of Independence offers a forgotten argument for facts

Poynter · Rebecca Catalanello · last updated

250 years later, Thomas Jefferson’s call to ‘let facts be submitted to a candid world’ still speaks to journalism’s mission

Over 17 days in June 1776, a 33-year-old man bent over his lap desk, putting ink on paper, scratching out words, revising. His countrymen were at war with their government.

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