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Showing posts with label Now You See It-Now You Don't. Show all posts
Thursday, February 1, 2018

The bird's-eye lowdown on PolitiFact's partisan reader advocates (Updated)

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Today PolitiFact announced it will publish content from two reader advocates at its PolitiFact.com website. The announcement didn't go...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

PolitiFact and robots.txt (updated)

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We were surprised earlier this week when our attempt to archive a PolitiFact fact check at the Internet Archive failed. Saving a page...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

The Cover Your Butt Cover Up: PolitiFact's Stealth Edits and Incoherent Defense of Hillary Clinton

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PolitiFact's recent treatment of the Hillary Clinton email scandal has been busy and bizarre. PolitiFact issued a "Half True" ...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

More on PolitiFact's deceptive Rubio/climate correction

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We've uncovered a bit more evidence of PolitiFact's dishonest correction of its climate-change hit piece on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Gingrich/O'Malley: The Fix is In

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With our previous post we took note of PolitiFact taking the unusual though not unprecedented step of unpublishing a story while preparing...
Friday, September 20, 2013

PolitiFact unpublishes its judgment of the Gingrich/O'Malley match on CNN

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The title says it all.  PolitiFact's article, judging by PolitiFact's Twitter feed, lasted about an hour.  PolitiFact, so far as we ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Flub & Scrub: Mitch McConnell edition, Part II

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On May 28 PolitiFact published a new version of its May 24 fact check of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It's mostly bad, but we'll...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Flub & Scrub: Mitch McConnell edition

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[Also see " Flub & Scrub:  Mitch McConnell edition Part II "] On Friday May 24 PolitiFact posted a fact check of Sen. Mitch ...
Friday, May 25, 2012

The trouble with the disappearance of the original "Julia" fact check

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Earlier this week, PolitiFact published a fact check of the Medicare portion of the Obama campaign's "Life of Julia" Web ad. ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

PolitiFact unpublishes "Julia" fact check (Updated)

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Whoa, Nelly. PolitiFact today took the unusual step of taking down a fact check of the Obama campaign's "Julia" Web ad. Th...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Hot Air: "PolitiFact Goes to the Dogs"

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This week PolitiFact flexed their Pulitzer-sized muscle by...copying and pasting. Our fact-finding friends decided the hubbub surrounding ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

PolitiGaffe: Of barrels and gallons

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OregonLive.com published the following letter (or e-letter) from alert reader "oregondriver": While you are so quick to find fa...