What Is Truth?

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

Readers of Pravda, which means "Truth," get their truth about the United Nations from two correspondents: Boris Izakov and Yuri Zhukov.* Veteran Correspondents Izakov & Zhukov sign their stories together: "We work for the same paper, and we don't want to compete with each other." Last week they had a hot piece of news for their readers : Newsweek, they reported, admitted that U.S. newsmen at the U.N. were dishonest.

The Pravda team relayed a Newsweek poll of U.N. correspondents, which had found that 62% do not believe that the U.S. delegation's policy at Lake Success has strengthened the U.N. Then Izakov & Zhukov quoted Newsweek as saying: "A study of the data of the questionnaire shows that apparently the majority of American correspondents at the Assembly are not sincere in praising the American position in their daily correspondence." There was only one thing wrong with this "quotation." Newsweek never said it.

*No kin to Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The name Zhukov is about as common in Russia as Jones is in the U.S.

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