What the Fact-Checkers Get Wrong
The language of Politifact and its peers doesn’t match their project
In the waning days of 2011, Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, brought the wrath of the liberal blog world upon itself when it dubiously—though not unexpectedly—chose as its “Lie of the Year” Democratic claims that House Republicans had voted to “end Medicare.” The uproar was just the latest wave of recrimination against the “fact-checking” enterprise,... Full Story »
Posted by Doug Greer - via Columbia Journalism Review, Google News (Fact Check)
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