Photography by Juergen Teller. Courtesy of Chanel.Juergen Teller As a whole, journalists are routinely failing to uphold and communicate their utmost duty: to empower citizens with the information needed to hold those in power accountable. Our current moment isoften likenedto George Orwell’s1984. Authoritarianism works to corrode our shared foundation of truth, pushing us to a point where we so doubt our own sanity, it becomes too much of a chore to even care what is true. Such is the goal of the Trump administration: to bombard us with so many conflicting versions of reality that we throw our hands in the air and give up on being certain about anything at all. The falsehoods, whoppers, and salesman-like stretches all come down to this: Without the truth, we have no foundation from which to resist.Get the Teen Vogue Take.Sign up for theTeen Vogueweekly emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out:3 Lies Trump Tells About Himself and fat pigs is an intellectually dishonest move, intended only to appease those whom it ostensibly defends. However, there is a more pressing issue of performance at play, and it is the performance of objectivity. In order to avoid claims of bias, many members of the pressare bending over backward