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I have treats for you…
Lisa Gold: Research Maven —
Authority: 405
* Last night I spoke with Stesha Brandon, the events manager of the University Book Store in Seattle, and she told me that they are getting an Espresso Book Machine in January. (See my my post “…an ATM for books” for more about the Espresso Book Machine, including video of it in action.) That makes a total ...3 days ago -
Facts Not a Stumbling Block for Morrissey
Little Green Footballs —
Authority: 592
At wingnut site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is promoting yet another anti-abortion story, citing a “local investigator” in Virginia who claims that a woman who smothered a newborn infant cannot be charged with a crime because of a statute that says as long as the umbilical cord is still attached to a baby, the mother ...4 days ago -
Facts Not a Stumbling Block for Malkin
Little Green Footballs —
Authority: 592
Michelle Malkin rants again: Public school lunacy of the day : A second-grader in Taunton, MA was kicked out of school, suspended, and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation for… …drawing a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Hat tip: Michael Graham) One picture of Jesus gets a kid booted from the ...6 days ago -
The Gift of Citizen Journalism: Fact-Checking
Mediaite —
Authority: 781
Regret The Error’s Craig Silverman has outdone himself this year on his annual greatest-hits list of the year in corrections , including a round up in the Year in Plagiarism , a list no one ever wants to be on. Yikes. But he also notes an interesting trend in the 2.0 world of citizen journalism: Fact-Checking. ...6 days ago -
FACT CHECKING THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE REMARKS
ARRA News Service —
Authority: 530
Fact Checking Claims That The Dem Bill Will, “Reduce The Costs Of Health Care,” “Families Will Save On Their Premiums,” “Businesses … Will Save,” And It Will “Strengthen Medicare” PRESIDENT OBAMA: “We Agree On Reforms That Will Finally Reduce The Costs Of Health Care. Families Will Save ...6 days ago -
7 tips to help you become a better fact checker
Write for Your Life —
Authority: 103
This guest post from Mary Ward offers practical advice for writers when tackling the research process, including recommended fact checking websites and some good old-fashioned common sense. The magnifying glass - international symbol for looking properly Fact checking allows you to separate fact from fiction. ...1 week ago -
Truth in Advertising? Not From Human Life Alliance
RHRealityCheck.org —
Authority: 682
This article is first in a series on an advertising supplement being sold by Minneapolis-based Human Life Alliance to colleges and universities. In each piece, Robin Marty, RH Reality Check Contributing Editor, will examine one in the series of ads for misleading, dangerous and outrageous information. For yet ...1 week ago -
Government-Funded NPR Tries To Force Mara Liasson Off Fox News To Please White House Ownership
Start Thinking Right —
Authority: 472
I have to say I find NPR’s thesis rather asinine. Mara Liasson is presumably an objective journalists by their standards, considering that they hired her and have continued to employ her for years. And to make it even more ridiculous, she has been part of Fox News since 1997 . But on their view, Fox News ...2 weeks ago -
Trusted First Reader Form
The Woo Woo Teacup Journal —
Authority: 124
Writers, y’all will know what I’m talking about when I mention trusted first readers. These are the folks you hand your writing off to when you have finished a rough draft and edited it at least once. Trusted first readers will give you honest feedback on your writing, but they’ll do it gently, trying not to ...2 weeks ago -
Ellen Goodman | Entitled to Their Own Facts?
BuzzFlash.net: published —
Authority: 459
This fact-free standard is held up (or down) by politicians who follow their lead. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, for example, isnt about to challenge those "death panel" believers who rally to his FreedomWorks flag: "If people want to believe that ... its O.K. with me." Whatever. Im not suggesting that ...2 weeks ago -
Outsourcing Fact Checking
The Lousy Linguist —
Authority: 530
Paul Spinrad guest blogs at boingboing and floats the idea of outsourcing fact checking (Ill support any proposal whatsoever that improves the fact checking process, believe me) but he adds the notion of, in essence, crowd sourcing linguistic annotation: Now, what if these fact-checkers didnt just vet and correct ...2 weeks ago -
Aren’t you glad newspapers have fact checkers and editors
NJN Network —
Authority: 147
Washington Post Learns The Importance Of Fact Checking… And Reading The CommentsWhen you don’t buy the paper you get better news coverage. The online reader comments always have the real story. It’s not the reporters fault. They are in a hurry, don’t really know what’s going on and the editor will slam them ...2 weeks ago -
Aren’t you glad newspapers have fact checkers and editors
NJN Network —
Authority: 147
Washington Post Learns The Importance Of Fact Checking… And Reading The CommentsWhen you don’t buy the paper you get better news coverage. The online reader comments always have the real story. It’s not the reporters fault. They are in a hurry, don’t really know what’s going on and the editor will slam them ...2 weeks ago -
Fact-checking Obamas speech on Afghanistan strategy
The Washington Post —
Authority: 948
"I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home."2 weeks ago -
Fact Checking the Democrat Senators on Healthcare
ARRA News Service —
Authority: 530
SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-CA): “People Are Urging Us To Get This Done.” (Sen. Barbara Boxer, Floor Remarks, 12/1/09) AMERICANS DON’T WANT THE DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE BILL GALLUP: “Americans Currently Tilt Against Congress Passing Healthcare Legislation, With 49% Saying They Would ...3 weeks ago -
Paywalls, Twitter, and Tiger Woods: The changing face of Internet journalism
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Authority: 647
Updates: See end of story. Though Rupert Murdoch’s decision to move newspaper content behind a paywall is the most publicized decision of its kind, it is not the only one. In an Op Ed in British paper The Guardian , journalism professor Tim Luckhurst (left) writes that “Johnston Press, Britain’s most ...3 weeks ago -
Another Sarah Screw Up
Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania —
Authority: 138
I know, I know. Like shooting dead fish in a barrel. Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving. The Moose that lays the golden egg. But just as she runs her publicity (on Facebook) and her book signing tour (leaving before the job is done) and her half term governorship of Alaska (like her 5K race ) it seems ...3 weeks ago -
Video: Obamacare is Not a Good Fit for Women
The Foundry —
Authority: 734
Click here to view the embedded video. First Lady Michelle Obama’s video on health care reform raises important issues about female patients who are falling through the cracks of the U.S. health care system. It’s not a perfect system, but Nina Owcharenko explains that ObamaCare would take women and the rest ...3 weeks ago -
Disputing Michelle Obama on womens Obama-care coverage...
AUP —
Authority: 125
From the Heritage Foundations Fact Checking the White House website is this video about how Obama-care will affect women and refuting Michelle Obamas less than truthful comments.3 weeks ago
