If facts are treated as sacred, and opinions clearly labelled as such, then any residual confusion can logically be cleared up with better education in how to t

If facts are treated as sacred, and opinions clearly labelled as such, then any residual confusion can logically be cleared up with better education in how to think critically. It's certainly a delicate balancing act but I agree with The Economist that it's possible. Fox News does not have the same "reverence for facts" as The Economist. Nor the same estimation of its audience's intelligence. The Economist is well known for, for example, leaving foreign-language quotations untranslated. I dropped my subscription to The Economist precisely because of its tiresomely doctrinaire approach to economics. But I still consider their journalists to be first-rate and I trust their reporting to be factually correct.