Mostly true: Roughly half the political universe loves each item churned out by the booming industry of political factchecking. The other half despises it. It just depends whose pants are adjudged to be on fire any given day. Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Joey Baker (t)
Not much substance here...and the disclosure that PolitiFact is planning a partnership with POLITICO is relatively buried in the sixth paragraph.
while there are many sources here, the focus is on those who do the fact-checking and how they see it, as both valid, yet needing to appeal to their markets, a combination which can be contradictory. what is missing here is any sense of how from a citizen'/voter's point of view fact checks make any difference either in opinion formation or in how reporters do their job. perhaps one of these featured here could take on a larger, more meaningful objective
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