Watergate scoop reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have urged colleagues to call time on the “post-truth” era.And it was a rallying cry that was picked up by historian and journalist Sir Simon Schama who was also speaking at the Sir Harry Evans Summit on investigative journalism in London.The News Agents and former BBC presenter Emily Maitlis asked the former Washington Post duo in a panel session: “In a post-truth world you can find the facts, you can knock on the doors, you can give people the answers and they say – ‘oh that’s a witch hunt’.”
Origen: Woodward, Bernstein and Simon Schama in call for return of truth
