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Vehemence tends to be less persuasive than quiet, clear communication.

Any bright girl who really applies herself to the handling of the checking problem can have a very pleasant time with it and fill the week with happy moments and memorable occasions.

As Sara Lippincott, former head of fact-checking New Yorker, “A little skepticism … is much to be desired, but if it is fed over and over again with a diet of misinformation, it eventually becomes cynicism, which is a different thing entirely. Then we are turned off. Then we cease to listen to each other at all, and so the journalist is in danger of becoming extinct–or ignored, which amounts to the same thing.