The mistake is obvious, right?
***SPOILER ALERT***
Surely they meant to post the second chart from the story instead of the one appearing above.
Showing posts with label layers of editors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label layers of editors. Show all posts
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Layers of editors on PolitiFact's Facebook page
I can probably get away with posting this PolitiFact Facebook post from Dec. 21, 2017 without comment.
The mistake is obvious, right?
***SPOILER ALERT***
Surely they meant to post the second chart from the story instead of the one appearing above.
The mistake is obvious, right?
***SPOILER ALERT***
Surely they meant to post the second chart from the story instead of the one appearing above.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
PolitiFact: LeBron James is Colin Kaepernick
Yes, we confess to using a strange title for this post.
Yet as far as we can tell, that is what PolitiFact is saying with a Facebook post from earlier today:
A fact check on Colin Kaeperick's shirt? We followed the link. We did find a rating of Kaepernick's misattribution of a quotation to Winston Churchill. But there was nothing about his shirt.
The linked page was titled "All Sports statements."
But we remembered seeing a fact check related to a sports figure that wasn't on that page.
It was a fact check of a Photoshop that changed the text on Lebron James' shirt.
So ... Lebron James is Colin Kaepernick?
We wonder how PolitiFact handles Facebook corrections transparently.
Yet as far as we can tell, that is what PolitiFact is saying with a Facebook post from earlier today:
A fact check on Colin Kaeperick's shirt? We followed the link. We did find a rating of Kaepernick's misattribution of a quotation to Winston Churchill. But there was nothing about his shirt.
The linked page was titled "All Sports statements."
But we remembered seeing a fact check related to a sports figure that wasn't on that page.
It was a fact check of a Photoshop that changed the text on Lebron James' shirt.
So ... Lebron James is Colin Kaepernick?
We wonder how PolitiFact handles Facebook corrections transparently.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
PolitiFact does history
The folks at PolitiFact must be awfully busy. So busy that they rush their work and have too little time to run correction notices.
A PolitiFact video explaining President Bill Clinton's role in signing NAFTA informs viewers that President George H. W. Bush negotiated the treaty. And shows an image of Jeb Bush and President George W. Bush together, waving.
James Skoog appears to have noticed it first.
Maybe PolitiFact found a picture of George W. and Jeb waving at George H. W. as the latter negotiated NAFTA?
Layers of editors ...
A PolitiFact video explaining President Bill Clinton's role in signing NAFTA informs viewers that President George H. W. Bush negotiated the treaty. And shows an image of Jeb Bush and President George W. Bush together, waving.
James Skoog appears to have noticed it first.
Maybe PolitiFact found a picture of George W. and Jeb waving at George H. W. as the latter negotiated NAFTA?
Layers of editors ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Layers of editors at PolitiFact Florida.
We ran across some faulty after-publication editing at PolitiFact Florida while doing some research.
A picture tells the story (red ovals and yellow highlights added):
Why pick on PolitiFact Florida over something relatively minor? We think it's a healthy reminder that the people who work for PolitiFact are fallible. Seeing this type of mistake reminds us that we shouldn't be too surprised to see other types of mistakes in their work, including mistakes in the research and conclusions.
A picture tells the story (red ovals and yellow highlights added):
Why pick on PolitiFact Florida over something relatively minor? We think it's a healthy reminder that the people who work for PolitiFact are fallible. Seeing this type of mistake reminds us that we shouldn't be too surprised to see other types of mistakes in their work, including mistakes in the research and conclusions.
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