Alternative facts are not facts, or are they?
In a classic TV exchange, less than one day into the new government administration in what seems like an age ago now, White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway asserts “the president was giving his alternative facts”. NBC News anchor Chuck Todd, clearly baffled angrily asserts that such a thing does not exist.
It all makes for entertaining TV. But how often do we come across “alternative facts” in the real world outside cable TV news shows?