Can't verify Trumped-up speech

I REALLY, really dislike the BBC's much-vaunted “Verify”.

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The so-called fact-checking operation casts a shadow over the rest of its news service.

“Verify” claims to offer a sort of guarantee that what we're seeing or hearing is kosher, wholly untainted by bias, disinformation, propaganda or spin.

So what about the rest of the bulletin on offer? The bits that haven't been verified? Are we to take these items with a pinch of salt? Distrust them? Be alert for the odd fib, distortion or exaggeration?

Imagine if this newspaper had a “Verify” section on its news pages - articles that were guaranteed to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

What would that say about reports on the other, “un-Verified” pages? Would we be obliged to read them with a large dose of suspicion and mistrust?