That's how they can do fact checking, that's how they can point out the platitudes.
On this rainy night, they also help each other with fact checking.
But analysts say many newsrooms do lack rigour and there is a crying need for some serious, consistent training in fact checking and reporting ethics.
Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast.
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But even before this market materialized, the traditional news outlets were showing signs of slippage on fact checking and filtering sensational claims from quality content.
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Indeed, the questions that professional medical writers ask and the fact checking they do may dissuade these types of authors from working with professional medical writers.
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So, going forward, we need the power and voice of UGC news, as well as the curatorial tools and fact checking chops of working Journalists to help us filter signal from noise.
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Now that we have entered an era, when each of us has the capacity to be a media company, the lack of fact checking and the amplification of echo chambers seems to be accelerating.
Of the millions of people that have seen and shared this image, perhaps only tens of thousands have read the cautionary posts and very few have actually done their own fact checking, which, as you can see, is very easy to do.
For the purposes of fact-checking, this is two groups publicly squabbling over lines in 2, 000-page bills.
Finding credible sources and fact-checking are key to the storytelling process and necessary before conducting interviews.
Just a few words about an insightful Columbia Journalism Review piece on fact-checking.
We don't - this whole fact-checking thing is very difficult for a rock band.
One has to be amazed at how little fact-checking the global warming alarmists do.
The latest accuser is Matt Drudge, a cyberscribe who spares himself the drudgery of fact-checking.
The Wall Street Journal could lead the way by fact-checking what it publishes on its editorial pages.
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They pass it through a tumbler of those critical questions, inject historical perspective, analysis and rigorous fact-checking.
The Standard piece offers up some genuine examples of faulty fact-checking in service of its tendentious argument.
Some have tried to count up the fact-checking ratings on these sites to determine which candidate is worse.
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Fact-checking backfires among people who have enough basic knowledge of politics to resist evidence that contradicts their beliefs!
If fact-checking is as important as it claims, its practitioners need to acknowledge its problems and fix them.
But now that we have specialists fact-checking T-shirts, this will no longer happen.
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The whole PolitiFact ruckus has the feel of traditional newspaper journalism (despite the new-ish fact-checking approach) whipsawed by forces it cannot grasp.
It was fact-checking operating more or less as it was meant to.
Broadcast outlets, which often repeat stories they read in the paper without doing any fact-checking, are also especially vulnerable to April 1 hoaxes.
Just check out Sutter's post on digging up sources and Smith and Glaeser's post on fact-checking, and have your questions ready.
My headache subsided and I powered through two more hours of fact-checking, ending the night with enough energy to grab celebratory beers with coworkers.
Following up on these alleged facts would not have been investigative journalism, just routine fact-checking on a story that seemed innocent on the surface.
They might want to invest in a more rigorous fact-checking process.
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