Ed was right. And he practiced what he preached. But there's a corollary to his principle. In any large institution, no matter how high your level, finding the truth is a full-time job. It's spread across organizations and jealously guarded. It takes courage and grit to find it.

Amen. Have they learned nothing?

We thought social media would make the world smaller. But it made us smaller, in echo chambers of disinformation. Our naiveté was a failure of imagination. We couldn't see into the darkest downsides. Now we're repeating the same mistake with AI. technologyreview.com/2024/03…

Terrific advice for PR people at every level, from entry to CCO.

Back in 1996, AT&T's CEO was hung out to dry because he refused to believe emotions can overwhelm facts. Turns out feelings can determine elections too. The Atlantic's Megan Garber argues Trump's “post-truth” society privileges feelings over reality. buff.ly/3RfDset