Editor’s Column: Step away from the fake news

There’s a kerfuffle afoot about the prevalence of “fake news,” particularly in social media (which is where 62 percent of U.S. adults get their news nowadays). Unfortunately, as we’ve all been told all our lives, you can’t believe everything you read. You can’t even believe everything you see anymore, what with video and photo editing and computer generated imagery.
But we shouldn’t pretend this is new. We just used to call it by a different…