In the commencement address, Fred Ryan, the CEO and publisher of The Washington Post, encouraged Wake Forest graduates to be seekers and stewards of the truth.
During Wake Forest University’s graduation festivities, Fred Ryan, the CEO and publisher of The Washington Post, acknowledged that fake news isn’t entirely new to America’s landscape, but credited the issue with being more threatening to the present than it was in the past.
Ryan put the “search for truth” at the heart of a Wake Forest experience that taught them to not settle for the “obvious answer or follow the easiest path." He credited a Wake Forest education with being special, in part, because it encouraged students to “relentlessly seek and discover.” Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan speaks before the start of an on-stage interview of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius at the Washington Post in Washington, D.C. on March 5. On Monday, he delivered the commencement address at Wake Forest University and encouraged students to tackle fake news, saying it's never been more of a threat than it is today.
Washington responded on February 15, 1778, and informed Lee he saw a letter that was supposedly written from him to his wife, Martha Washington. However, he added, “not one word of which I did ever write” and speculated all the letters to be written by the same author. Ryan noted that there was always tension between reporters and presidents, but said today’s relationship between the two entities with being “entirely different” than previous eras. He also credited Trump’s labeling of the press as the “enemy of the people” with being a “dangerous behavior.”
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