Few things are more alien to the mentality of those who staff the upper tiers of the mainstream of our media as equality, few things more ingrained than deference to elites.
The use of the word "falsehood" has long seemed to me emblematic of that.
An "ordinary" person's false statement would be flatly called a lie. It might even be called a "[expletive deleted] lie." And as a speaker of such they would be regarded as a "liar."
However, a person in a position of power is considered by them to have spoken a "falsehood," not a "lie," and to be no more than a person who uttered such, rather than anything so low as a "liar."
It is a truly pathetic display of servility indeed.
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