The value of fact-checking in the 2012 campaign
By Bill Adair
Published on Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 3:52 p.m.
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We published more than 800 Truth-O-Meter fact-checks in the presidential campaign.
I am a fan of David Carr, the media writer at the New York Times, but he really misfired with his blog post "A Last Fact-Check: It Didn't Work."
Carr's point is that the tremendous amount of fact-checking of the 2012 campaign was worthless because it didn't stop the candidates from lying. "Both candidates’ campaigns laid out a number of whoppers, got clobbered for doing so, and then kept right on saying them," he writes.
We've heard this argument before.
Read the rest of my take here.
Sources:
Story, "The value of fact-checking in the 2012 campaign," PolitiFact, Washington, Nov. 8, 2012
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