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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Sublime Bloviations: "Grading PolitiFact (Florida): Grover Norquist and half of something"

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I try to resist highlighting posts from my second blog here at PolitiFact Bias, but JD's busy and, all humility aside, this item looks l...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

A tale of two fact checks

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(crossposted from Sublime Bloviations ) PolitiFact recently checked a claim by Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) that EPA regulations on mi...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

PFB Smackdown: The Providence Phoenix rises to aid Politifact--sort of

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The Providence Phoenix provided a would-be defense of PolitiFact Rhode Island--but in the end the defense hurts the mainstream media's...
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Anchor Rising: "More Bias on Display"

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JD and I only got started with PolitiFact Bias in early 2011.  That puts us a few years behind in highlighting excellent examples others hav...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Introducing PFB's Anecdote-O-Meter

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Just kidding with the title.  The o-meter stuff is too trite to use as more than a one-off joke. But the subject is anecdotes and their r...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "PolitiFact Has A Serious Problem, But I Repeat Myself"

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Our friend William A. Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection takes on two PolitiFact ratings. First Jacobson reviews the Milwaukee Journal ...

Anchor Rising introduces "PolitiFarce" tag

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Rhode Island bloggers Anchor Rising have produced a number of high-quality critiques of PolitiFact, and the good folks there have added a ne...
Monday, March 7, 2011

"Stinky Journalism" highlights PFB, Wisconsin's "Media Trackers"

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Count me among those who had no idea that Stinky Journalism.org exists. Stinky Journalism was started to help hold journalists to a higher...