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Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Weekly Standard: "Damned Lies and ‘Fact Checking’ (cont.)"

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The Weekly Standard has a follow up to Mark Hemingway's story earlier this month focusing on the foibles of fact checking ( link to our...

Slate: "PolitiFact Weirdly Unable to Discuss Facts"

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PolitiFact's recent spat with its liberal readership base has led to the publication of quite a few stories that echo criticisms recurre...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Forbes: "PolitiFact and the Traditional Journalism Trap"

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After a focused effort to publish my own response to Bill Adair's thin defense of PolitiFact's choice for its "Lie of the Year...

Bill Adair: You who criticize us are in an echo chamber chamber chamber chamber

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PolitiFact editor Bill Adair served up some delicious irony with his recent defense of PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" se...

Apoplectic Now: The Aneurysm of the Year

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That massive popping sound you heard on Tuesday was the collective hearts and minds of liberals across America bursting as they witnessed th...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The meaning of PolitiFact's "Lie of theYear" for 2011

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I wonder whether this award will have those conservatives blasting politically-motivated “fact check” operations rethinking that criticis...
Friday, December 16, 2011

New feature: The (annotated) Principles of PolitiFact and the Truth-O-Meter

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Jeff and I continually run across cases where PolitiFact applies its standards unevenly, contradicts them or simply ignores them.  But simpl...

Forbes: "How to Fix Fact-Checking"

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It's gratifying to see journalists and pundits piling on PolitiFact for all the reasons PFB preaches.  The latest to jump on is Forbes ...