Jack Dunn For Yamiche Alcindor, a Washington correspondent for NBC News, “truth is fact.” It’s a simple definition, yet not everyone subscribes to it.
While reporting for PBS in 2020, Alcindor stood outside the White House waiting for former President Donald Trump to walk to St.
John’s Episcopal Church. Before she knew it, she was choking on tear gas used to clear peaceful protestors out of Trump’s way.
Alcindor quickly returned to PBS to report what happened, but after the news went live, the Government called her story a lie. “[The Government] gassed me, this is not me interviewing somebody.
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