Unanswered questions in the Romney/Bain controversy
Don’t look to fact-checkers for resolution
Fact-checkers have played a key role in the controversy over Mitt Romney’s role in outsourcing at Bain Capital, but the way the debate has played out reveals the limitations of the genre.
First, fact-checks sometimes help create controversies that paradoxically increase the attention paid to misleading charges. For this reason, political consultants will sometimes intentionally make misleading claims in order to increase the amount of “earned ...
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The author seems to exhibit a very right wing bias, but does raise some good questions about fact-checkers.