Troubling facts

As we've shouted into the wind all year long, it's the job of the campaign press to not only report the claims of a candidate, but also to report the accuracy of those claims, and then, as the Post did, to ask the political figure in question to justify his or her deliberate attempt to mislead the voter.

The attempt by power to mislead the powerless, wherever it raises its eternal head, is the real news, as Albert Camus pointed out long ago. And it's about time we got some of that news, framed that way. So, in the spirit of acknowledging that late is better than never, we say, thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the campaign press.

Now that we're down to the final eight weeks of the election campaign, it's more important than ever that the press relentlessly, and daily, measure claim against fact.

Campaign Desk's Thomas Lang can't quite believe his eyes.