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By: TSteichen

This article, read carefully, shows the vacuousness of political fact-checking (at least as practiced by PolitFact. The quoted comments tell very clearly that they take very subjective claims and make...

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By: JHamer

But who fact-checks the news media? The Washington News Council in Seattle has been doing that for 14 years now. See http://wanewscouncil.org and watch our two recent hearings on complaints against...

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By: beastsnlunatics

To borrow a phrase from the late, great C. Wright Mills, Politifact’s problem is that they are often, like much of political journalism these days: “drunk on syntax, blind to semantics.”...

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